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1  A strange sense of loss came over him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
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3  The mere danger gave me a sense of delight.
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4  Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity.
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5  Lord Henry watched him with a subtle sense of pleasure.
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6  The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation.
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7  For a moment a hideous sense of humiliation came over the woman.
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8  There were opiates for remorse, drugs that could lull the moral sense to sleep.
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9  Inexperienced though he was, he had still a strong sense of the danger of Sibyl's position.
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10  A sense of infinite pity, not for himself, but for the painted image of himself, came over him.
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11  If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect.
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12  The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices, his principles, and his common sense.
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13  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.
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14  Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
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15  He was like one of those gracious figures in a pageant or a play, whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one's sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
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16  What there was in it of the purely sensuous instinct of boyhood had been transformed by the workings of the imagination, changed into something that seemed to the lad himself to be remote from sense, and was for that very reason all the more dangerous.
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17  If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
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