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1 It annihilates the desire to act.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 19
2 The more he knew, the more he desired to know.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11
3 But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 18
4 You filled me with a wild desire to know everything about life.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4
5 "I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather," he answered.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3
6 Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his soul, and desire had come to meet it on the way.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4
7 When the coffee and cigarettes had been brought and the man turned to go, he felt a wild desire to tell him to remain.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 8
8 There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences, yet it was not a simple, but rather a very complex passion.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4
9 Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 2
10 From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 16
11 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 GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 1
12 It was a large, well-proportioned room, which had been specially built by the last Lord Kelso for the use of the little grandson whom, for his strange likeness to his mother, and also for other reasons, he had always hated and desired to keep at a distance.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10