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1  Perhaps we never really had it.
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2  And he had such a beautiful voice.
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3  One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.
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4  She said that he was very earnest and had a beautiful nature.
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5  The painter had been busy mixing his colours and getting his brushes ready.
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6  I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionize me.
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7  I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
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8  I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
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9  Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.
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10  He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward.
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11  She told me she had discovered a wonderful young man who was going to help her in the East End, and that his name was Dorian Gray.
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12  Dorian Gray stepped up on the dais with the air of a young Greek martyr, and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
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13  And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase.
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14  As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.
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15  Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.
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16  I believe some picture of mine had made a great success at the time, at least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality.
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17  I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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