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1  It was conscious of the events of life as they occurred.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  He was quite conscious that this would tell them nothing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  She was conscious that a great opportunity had been wasted.
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4  Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  It had made him conscious how unjust, how cruel, he had been to Sibyl Vane.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  He was dimly conscious that entirely fresh influences were at work within him.
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7  The consciousness of being hunted, snared, tracked down, had begun to dominate him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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9  He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment.
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10  He stood there motionless and in wonder, dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him, but not catching the meaning of his words.
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11  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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12  Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.
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13  "Just turn your head a little more to the right, Dorian, like a good boy," said the painter, deep in his work and conscious only that a look had come into the lad's face that he had never seen there before.
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14  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.
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15  To-night, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say.
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16  The worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions and sensations that seem stronger than themselves, and that they are conscious of sharing with the less highly organized forms of existence.
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17  He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his own beauty might be untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.
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