By: Gaston Leroux
“The Opera Ghost really existed. He was not, as was longed believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.”
-Gaston Leroux states in
the opening of the Phantom of the
Opera.
"He had a heart that could have
held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself
with a cellar"
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