Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind

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

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

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.

Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or practice their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a wicked heart or a bad conscience.

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

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!