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1  The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
2  You may know terror yourself some day.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  It fills one with the terror of eternity.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  A curious sensation of terror came over me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  Just before you came I almost fainted with terror.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  Paralysed with terror, he did not know what to do.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The man looked at her in terror and began to whimper.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  He grew nervous, and a horrible fit of terror came over him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  His feeling of terror had passed away, and curiosity had taken its place.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  A cry of terror broke from Dorian Gray's lips, and he rushed between the painter and the screen.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  The word doctrinaire--word full of terror to the British mind--reappeared from time to time between his explosions.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  As he drove back to his own house, he was conscious that the sense of terror he thought he had strangled had come back to him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  The terrible moment, the moment that night and day, for weeks and months, she had dreaded, had come at last, and yet she felt no terror.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  The worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions and sensations that seem stronger than themselves, and that they are conscious of sharing with the less highly organized forms of existence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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