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1  I had a passion for sensations.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The passion for property is in it.
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3  She was free in her prison of passion.
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4  They know how useful passion is for publication.
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5  A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion.
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6  A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
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7  There were moments, later on, when it had the wild passion of violins.
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8  The pulse and passion of youth were in him, but he was becoming self-conscious.
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9  He was a most offensive brute, though he had an extraordinary passion for Shakespeare.
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10  Some southern wind of passion swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress.
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11  I might mimic a passion that I do not feel, but I cannot mimic one that burns me like fire.
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12  I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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13  She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.
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14  There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences, yet it was not a simple, but rather a very complex passion.
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15  Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.
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16  His father had been our ambassador at Madrid when Isabella was young and Prim unthought of, but had retired from the diplomatic service in a capricious moment of annoyance on not being offered the Embassy at Paris, a post to which he considered that he was fully entitled by reason of his birth, his indolence, the good English of his dispatches, and his inordinate passion for pleasure.
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17  He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria.
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