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1  Things that were dangerous had to be destroyed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  Everything belonging to him had been destroyed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  It was obvious that this was not the man who had destroyed her life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  Indeed, to destroy a body must be far less horrible than what you are accustomed to work at.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
8  What you have got to do is to destroy the thing that is upstairs--to destroy it so that not a vestige of it will be left.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  There were opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Harry, I can't quarrel with my two best friends at once, but between you both you have made me hate the finest piece of work I have ever done, and I will destroy it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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