You'll love it here when you get used to the dark. And you'll love the dark, too. It's friendly and peaceful. It brings rest and relief from pain.

Erique Claudin (Claude Rains)

10 seconds sound clip from the Phantom of the Opera (1943) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:21:58.105 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- It was I who made the chandelier fall. I for you, Christine.

- But I warned them. I told them there'd be death and destruction if they didn't let you sing. Come.

- See? Didn't I tell you it was beautiful? You didn't know we had a lake all to ourselves, did you?

- They've poisoned your mind against me. That's why you're afraid.

- Look at your lake, Christine.

- You'll love it here when you get used to the dark. And you'll love the dark, too. It's friendly and peaceful. It brings rest and relief from pain.

- It's right under the Opera.

- The music comes down in the darkness, distills it. Cleanses it of the suffering that made it. And it's all beauty.

- And life here is like a resurrection.

- Gentlemen, this is more than just a performance of a new concerto. The whole future of the Paris Opera may depend upon it.

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