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Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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1  The sky above was like a faded rose.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
2  The sky was an inverted cup of blue metal.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  The moon hung low in the sky like a yellow skull.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  The sky was bright, and there was a genial warmth in the air.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
5  The sky was pure opal now, and the roofs of the houses glistened like silver against it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
6  Cloudless, and pierced by one solitary star, a copper-green sky gleamed through the windows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  The darkness lifted, and, flushed with faint fires, the sky hollowed itself into a perfect pearl.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play--I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19