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1  Last night she was a great artist.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  I should have shown myself more of an artist.
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3  You spoil my life as an artist by refusing, Dorian.
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4  "You don't understand me, Harry," answered the artist.
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5  Now they have got the mysterious disappearance of an artist.
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6  "I want the Dorian Gray I used to paint," said the artist sadly.
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7  When you and he ceased to be great friends, he ceased to be a great artist.
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8  "No, Harry," answered the artist, giving his hat and coat to the bowing waiter.
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9  An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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10  It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
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11  He had dreamed of her as a great artist, had given his love to her because he had thought her great.
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12  Don't take away from me the one person who gives to my art whatever charm it possesses: my life as an artist depends on him.
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13  You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
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14  Since then, his work was that curious mixture of bad painting and good intentions that always entitles a man to be called a representative British artist.
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15  Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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16  The young man was leaning against the mantelshelf, watching him with that strange expression that one sees on the faces of those who are absorbed in a play when some great artist is acting.
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17  In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.
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