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1  It is the world's original sin.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
2  Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
3  That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
4  But here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
5  It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
6  For every sin that he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
7  The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  It might escape the hideousness of sin, but the hideousness of age was in store for it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
9  Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
10  Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
11  Those finely shaped fingers could never have clutched a knife for sin, nor those smiling lips have cried out on God and goodness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
12  He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
13  All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
14  Don't let us talk about it any more, and don't try to persuade me that the first good action I have done for years, the first little bit of self-sacrifice I have ever known, is really a sort of sin.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
15  There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
16  He would examine with minute care, and sometimes with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead or crawled around the heavy sensual mouth, wondering sometimes which were the more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
17  On his return he would sit in front of the picture, sometimes loathing it and himself, but filled, at other times, with that pride of individualism that is half the fascination of sin, and smiling with secret pleasure at the misshapen shadow that had to bear the burden that should have been his own.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
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