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Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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1  The expression looked different.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  It was simply the expression that had altered.
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3  Hallward glanced round him with a puzzled expression.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  "No," answered his mother with a placid expression in her face.
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5  His romantic, olive-coloured face and worn expression interested him.
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6  It is simply expression, as Harry says, that gives reality to things.
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7  But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
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8  When he entered, she looked at him, and an expression of infinite joy came over her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  "I will tell you," said Hallward; but an expression of perplexity came over his face.
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10  She rose from her knees and, with a piteous expression of pain in her face, came across the room to him.
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11  Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you--well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that.
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12  I don't know what Harry has been saying to you, but he has certainly made you have the most wonderful expression.
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13  If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.
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14  But the strange expression that he had noticed in the face of the portrait seemed to linger there, to be more intensified even.
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15  There were no signs of any change when he looked into the actual painting, and yet there was no doubt that the whole expression had altered.
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16  Because, without intending it, I have put into it some expression of all this curious artistic idolatry, of which, of course, I have never cared to speak to him.
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17  He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
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