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1  Form and colour tell us of form and colour--that is all.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  One should sympathize with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  The colour came back to his cheeks, and a smile played about his lips.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids and as subtle in colour.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  The brightly coloured parasols danced and dipped like monstrous butterflies.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  The garnet cast out demons, and the hydropicus deprived the moon of her colour.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  I find that, ultimately, there are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  But I know that as I worked at it, every flake and film of colour seemed to me to reveal my secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment, and he started up.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  Some day you will look at your friend, and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won't like his tone of colour, or something.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  The orphreys were divided into panels representing scenes from the life of the Virgin, and the coronation of the Virgin was figured in coloured silks upon the hood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  He procured from Amsterdam three emeralds of extraordinary size and richness of colour, and had a turquoise de la vieille roche that was the envy of all the connoisseurs.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  Another cope was of green velvet, embroidered with heart-shaped groups of acanthus-leaves, from which spread long-stemmed white blossoms, the details of which were picked out with silver thread and coloured crystals.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  He felt that the eyes of Dorian Gray were fixed on him, and the consciousness that amongst his audience there was one whose temperament he wished to fascinate seemed to give his wit keenness and to lend colour to his imagination.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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