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1  Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  They would mar its beauty and eat away its grace.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  No winter marred his face or stained his flowerlike bloom.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  She had marred him for a moment, if he had wounded her for an age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  Yet it was watching him, with its beautiful marred face and its cruel smile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  The moment she touched actual life, she marred it, and it marred her, and so she passed away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  Whatever my life is, he had more to do with the making or the marring of it than poor Harry has had.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  His own nature had revolted against the excess of anguish that had sought to maim and mar the perfection of its calm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  There he paused for a moment, feeling that he was on the brink of a discovery that would either make or mar his life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  The vicious cruelty that marred the fine lines of the mouth had, no doubt, appeared at the very moment that the girl had drunk the poison, whatever it was.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8