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1  But this picture will remain always young.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  He made no answer at first, but remained quite still.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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4  For he was not to remain a sailor, or a supercargo, or whatever he was going to be.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  It had changed in answer to a prayer; perhaps in answer to a prayer it might remain unchanged.
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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.
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8  It had been mad of him to have allowed the thing to remain, even for an hour, in a room to which any of his friends had access.
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9  It was a small party, got up rather in a hurry by Lady Narborough, who was a very clever woman with what Lord Henry used to describe as the remains of really remarkable ugliness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  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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11  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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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