MODERN in Classic Quotes - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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Current Search - Modern in The Picture of Dorian Gray

1 It is the finest portrait of modern times.

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2 The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal.

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3 Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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4 There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.

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5 Yes; there is really no end to the consolations that women find in modern life.

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6 It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.

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7 Crudely as it had been told to him, it had yet stirred him by its suggestion of a strange, almost modern romance.

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8 One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.

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