Our lives are one masked ball.


Gaston Leroux

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am ...
GASTON LEROUX
Now Leroux, what think you
Of this twist to the story?
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts ...
GASTON LEROUX
Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of bein...
GASTON LEROUX
Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's fac...
GASTON LEROUX
While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would...
GASTON LEROUX
Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for he...
GASTON LEROUX
No, of course not.... Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love o...
GASTON LEROUX
... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa...
GASTON LEROUX
...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-...
GASTON LEROUX
Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.
GASTON LEROUX
why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself...
GASTON LEROUX
When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.
GASTON LEROUX
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like every...
GASTON LEROUX
He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead...
GASTON LEROUX
But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?
GASTON LEROUX
And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow ...
GASTON LEROUX
Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest
GASTON LEROUX
He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, ...
GASTON LEROUX
I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! A...
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She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!
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Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies ...
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Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her ou...
GASTON LEROUX
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her so...
GASTON LEROUX
Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!
GASTON LEROUX
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and ...
GASTON LEROUX
Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: ...
GASTON LEROUX
You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All...
GASTON LEROUX
Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Op...
GASTON LEROUX
He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to conte...
GASTON LEROUX
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like ever...
GASTON LEROUX
I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not...
GASTON LEROUX
All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)
GASTON LEROUX
Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of t...
GASTON LEROUX
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because yo...
GASTON LEROUX
I think the masked rider is one of the greatest traditions we have at Texas Tech and I'm really prou...
AMY BELL
Masked, I advance.
RENé DESCARTES
I've changed so many masks. None suits me.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands b...
WILLIE STARGELL
Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. "Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds."
"Um.....
ILONA ANDREWS
The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Ga...
HUGH JACKMAN
I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL
Sense of Logic usually masked by selfishness
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
LORNA LUFT
Our lives are embellished enough with designers and chrome, death is one thing that doesn't need tin...
GRAHAME HARLOW
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
UNKNOWN
One such episode of cooling during the period 1940-1975, when tidal forcing was stronger, may have t...
TIMOTHY WHORF
I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitl...
DORIS ROBERTS
Our lives are changed by surrounding ourselves with people who are changing their lives.
ERIC PARROTT
Everything—our lives, our loves, our futures—hinges on one word alone: IF.
A.G. HOWARD
[I posed this question yesterday to Bobby Gaston , the Southeastern Conference Supervisor of Officia...
BOBBY GASTON
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance
HERBERT SPENCER
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCER
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
TONY ROBBINS
All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.
EMILIO ESTEVEZ
Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN
Jane Heard.
ONE
Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE
How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!
JOAN D. VINGE
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Feast of Matthias the Apostle In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked to...
A. LEONARD GRIFFITH
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of actio...
FRANK HERBERT
Life is full of blips and tweaks. Blips are what happens in our lives. Tweaks are the changes we mak...
LORRIN L. LEE
Every one lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Our lives teach us who we are.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
DALAI LAMA
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
ROGER CARAS
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
JAN KARON
The most important community to any business is the one where you are headquartered. This is our ent...
BOB WARRINGTON
I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be...
GLORIA STEINEM
Our lives are indeed the story of what we do today & the every day that lies ahead. The todays are t...
CALE CHEW
No customs nor traditions symbolize that chapter of our lives we daughters open our pages to, when o...
MAICHEE SUMMER
We're always playing as a team. Our line-up one through nine has been solid hitting the ball -- ever...
JOE HIGGINS
Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots.
PATRICK REINKEN
Our lives are in constant need of improvement
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The todays are the sum of our lives.
CALE CHEW
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
RAY DALIO
Our pitchers got tentative, started throwing ball one, ball two, and when you do that you're going t...
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Our pitches got very tentative. You can't get tentative against a lineup like the Yankees. We threw ...
MIKE HARGROVE
She's (Cavanaugh) good. She was the only one out there taking the ball for them.
JACKY GADDIS
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The truly important people in our lives are always in our future.
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You see, people are everywhere. They are everything. No matter who we are, or what we do, people are...
S.R. CRAWFORD
Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST
A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.
NICOLAS ROEG
We all have human emotions that rob our lives.
JENNIFER O'NEILL
This is a great time in our lives and careers.
NICK LACHEY
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
ELLEN GOODMAN
We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It ruined our lives. My golden years are tarnished.
ANN PALMER
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
CARL SANDBURG
We've found that our lives are beginning to change, that the press, for instance, has taken an inter...
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Too many lives are needed to make just one.
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We spend one-third of our lives in bed and they get dirty.
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