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1 I must confess that most of them are extremely pretty.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3
2 If I ever did a crime, I would come and confess it to you.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4
3 It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 8
4 Your name was implicated in the most terrible confession I ever read.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 12
5 Yet it was his duty to confess, to suffer public shame, and to make public atonement.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 20
6 Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failure.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4
7 You are mad, I tell you--mad to imagine that I would raise a finger to help you, mad to make this monstrous confession.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 14
8 One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10
9 Yet he could not help feeling infinite pity for the painter who had just made this strange confession to him, and wondered if he himself would ever be so dominated by the personality of a friend.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar Wilde ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9