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1  The generation into which I was born was tedious.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
2  Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
3  The world would have worshipped you, and you would have borne my name.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
4  Basil had said things to him that were unbearable, and that he had yet borne with patience.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
5  It was not that mere physical admiration of beauty that is born of the senses and that dies when the senses tire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
6  The ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece seemed to him to be dividing time into separate atoms of agony, each of which was too terrible to be borne.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
7  For these treasures, and everything that he collected in his lovely house, were to be to him means of forgetfulness, modes by which he could escape, for a season, from the fear that seemed to him at times to be almost too great to be borne.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11