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1  The knowledge was exquisite to me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  There was an exquisite poison in the air.
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3  Her eyes were lit with an exquisite fire.
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4  She had never seemed to me more exquisite.
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5  There are exquisite things in store for you.
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6  It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.
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7  Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin.
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8  Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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9  The voice was exquisite, but from the point of view of tone it was absolutely false.
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10  I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
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11  You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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12  Old brocades, green bronzes, lacquer-work, carved ivories, exquisite surroundings, luxury, pomp--there is much to be got from all these.
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13  Her eyes opened wide in exquisite wonder when I told her what I thought of her performance, and she seemed quite unconscious of her power.
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14  It seemed to him that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes, the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him.
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15  She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful eyes, looked down at her, and his chiselled lips curled in exquisite disdain.
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16  It is an interesting question," said Lord Henry, who found an exquisite pleasure in playing on the lad's unconscious egotism, "an extremely interesting question.
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17  We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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