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1  He had hateful memories of him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
2  She had called on memory to remake him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
3  The memory of the thing is hateful to me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
4  Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
5  The phrases came back to his memory, and he repeated them over and over to himself.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
6  His mere presence seemed to recall to them the memory of the innocence that they had tarnished.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
8  There were opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
9  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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  He winced at the memory of all that he had suffered, and for a moment the same curious feeling of loathing for Basil Hallward that had made him kill him as he sat in the chair came back to him, and he grew cold with passion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
11  When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
12  He felt a terrible joy at the thought that some one else was to share his secret, and that the man who had painted the portrait that was the origin of all his shame was to be burdened for the rest of his life with the hideous memory of what he had done.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
13  There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
14  But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play--I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19