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1  He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The hideous hunger for opium began to gnaw at him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  For a moment a hideous sense of humiliation came over the woman.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  A hideous Jew, in the most amazing waistcoat I ever beheld in my life, was standing at the entrance, smoking a vile cigar.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  An exclamation of horror broke from the painter's lips as he saw in the dim light the hideous face on the canvas grinning at him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  For weeks he would not go there, would forget the hideous painted thing, and get back his light heart, his wonderful joyousness, his passionate absorption in mere existence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Yes: that blind, slow-breathing thing crawled no more, and horrible thoughts, time being dead, raced nimbly on in front, and dragged a hideous future from its grave, and showed it to him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  The fantastic character of these instruments fascinated him, and he felt a curious delight in the thought that art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  And yet I see you very seldom, and you never come down to the studio now, and when I am away from you, and I hear all these hideous things that people are whispering about you, I don't know what to say.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it for the blood to flow through, you would simply look upon him as an admirable subject.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  He felt a terrible joy at the thought that some one else was to share his secret, and that the man who had painted the portrait that was the origin of all his shame was to be burdened for the rest of his life with the hideous memory of what he had done.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  To-night, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  He would examine with minute care, and sometimes with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead or crawled around the heavy sensual mouth, wondering sometimes which were the more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  Certainly with hideous iteration the bitten lips of Dorian Gray shaped and reshaped those subtle words that dealt with soul and sense, till he had found in them the full expression, as it were, of his mood, and justified, by intellectual approval, passions that without such justification would still have dominated his temper.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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