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1  It belongs to Nature, not to me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  They had not influenced his nature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  He has a simple and a beautiful nature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  You know yourself, Harry, how independent I am by nature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  Her shallow secret nature was troubled when their eyes met.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  She said that he was very earnest and had a beautiful nature.
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9  Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  He was conscious also of the shallowness and vanity of his mother's nature, and in that saw infinite peril for Sibyl and Sibyl's happiness.
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14  Mrs. Vane glanced at her, and with one of those false theatrical gestures that so often become a mode of second nature to a stage-player, clasped her in her arms.
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15  I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  The fantastic character of these instruments fascinated him, and he felt a curious delight in the thought that art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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