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1  The lad started, as if awakened from some dream.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  When they opened, the mist of a dream had passed across them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Things of which he had never dreamed were gradually revealed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Motionless, and as one in a dream, sat Dorian Gray, gazing at her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  Things that he had dimly dreamed of were suddenly made real to him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  He had dreamed of her as a great artist, had given his love to her because he had thought her great.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadow of their evil real.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  A dim sense of having taken part in some strange tragedy came to him once or twice, but there was the unreality of a dream about it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman--always a rash thing to do--he never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  I loved you because you were marvellous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  The man had to touch him twice on the shoulder before he woke, and as he opened his eyes a faint smile passed across his lips, as though he had been lost in some delightful dream.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  To you at least she was always a dream, a phantom that flitted through Shakespeare's plays and left them lovelier for its presence, a reed through which Shakespeare's music sounded richer and more full of joy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  Indeed, there were many, especially among the very young men, who saw, or fancied that they saw, in Dorian Gray the true realization of a type of which they had often dreamed in Eton or Oxford days, a type that was to combine something of the real culture of the scholar with all the grace and distinction and perfect manner of a citizen of the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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