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1  It was conscious of the events of life as they occurred.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  He was quite conscious that this would tell them nothing.
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3  She was conscious that a great opportunity had been wasted.
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4  Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious.
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5  It had made him conscious how unjust, how cruel, he had been to Sibyl Vane.
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6  He was dimly conscious that entirely fresh influences were at work within him.
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7  He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment.
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8  He stood there motionless and in wonder, dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him, but not catching the meaning of his words.
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9  He was conscious also of the shallowness and vanity of his mother's nature, and in that saw infinite peril for Sibyl and Sibyl's happiness.
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10  He turned and hurried out, just conscious that the dead man had been thrust back into the chair and that Campbell was gazing into a glistening yellow face.
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11  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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious.
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13  "Just turn your head a little more to the right, Dorian, like a good boy," said the painter, deep in his work and conscious only that a look had come into the lad's face that he had never seen there before.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  In fact, it was music that had first brought him and Dorian Gray together--music and that indefinable attraction that Dorian seemed to be able to exercise whenever he wished--and, indeed, exercised often without being conscious of it.
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15  To-night, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say.
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16  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.
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17  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.
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