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1  There was romance in every place.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  That is what the world calls a romance.
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3  I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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4  You should say the first romance of your life.
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5  I thought you must have some curious romance on hand.
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6  But you should not say the greatest romance of your life.
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7  That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
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8  They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.
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9  There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
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10  It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.
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11  Crudely as it had been told to him, it had yet stirred him by its suggestion of a strange, almost modern romance.
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12  I once wore nothing but violets all through one season, as a form of artistic mourning for a romance that would not die.
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13  But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.
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14  To the present day I can't make out why I did so; and yet if I hadn't--my dear Harry, if I hadn't--I should have missed the greatest romance of my life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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