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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera , which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most celebrated locked-room mysteries. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. May 1868 – 15. April 1927  •  Other names قاستون لورو
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Works

The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux: 26 quotes9 likes

Famous Gaston Leroux Quotes

“Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears… and she did not run away!… and she did not die!… She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!”

Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux Quotes about love

“You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.”

Gaston Leroux

“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux Quotes

“He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“Blood!… Blood!… That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“Our lives are one masked ball.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

“… the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a
trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

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