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1  It was only in the theatre that I lived.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
2  He lives the poetry that he cannot write.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
3  If he had lived, he would have made provision for us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
4  The room looked as if it had not been lived in for years.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
5  The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
7  Credit is the capital of a younger son, and one lives charmingly upon it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
8  My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
9  The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  During the three terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
13  As for the lives of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
14  As I lounged in the park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at every one who passed me and wonder, with a mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
15  There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
16  If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
17  If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
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