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1  She must have suffered more than he had.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
2  You don't know what he had made me suffer.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
3  But, as I was saying, you must not think I have not suffered.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
4  Yet it was his duty to confess, to suffer public shame, and to make public atonement.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
5  To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
6  "I can sympathize with everything except suffering," said Lord Henry, shrugging his shoulders.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
7  But we are not likely to suffer from it unless these fellows keep chattering about this thing at dinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
8  He knew in what strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
9  He winced at the memory of all that he had suffered, and for a moment the same curious feeling of loathing for Basil Hallward that had made him kill him as he sat in the chair came back to him, and he grew cold with passion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  In the long cedar chests that lined the west gallery of his house, he had stored away many rare and beautiful specimens of what is really the raiment of the Bride of Christ, who must wear purple and jewels and fine linen that she may hide the pallid macerated body that is worn by the suffering that she seeks for and wounded by self-inflicted pain.
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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7