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1  Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  A look of pain came across him, and he flung the rich pall over the picture.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  His brows knit together into a wedge-like furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his underlip.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  She rose from her knees and, with a piteous expression of pain in her face, came across the room to him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  The air was heavy with the perfume of the flowers, and their beauty seemed to bring him an anodyne for his pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  A cry of pain broke from the lad's lips, and he leaped to his feet, tearing his hands away from Lord Henry's grasp.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  During the three terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  A feeling of pain crept over him as he thought of the desecration that was in store for the fair face on the canvas.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  The elder woman grew pale beneath the coarse powder that daubed her cheeks, and her dry lips twitched with a spasm of pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver.
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  But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world had sought to starve them into submission or to kill them by pain, instead of aiming at making them elements of a new spirituality, of which a fine instinct for beauty was to be the dominant characteristic.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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