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1  The senses could refine, and the intellect could degrade.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
2  If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
3  I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
4  Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
5  It was to have its service of the intellect, certainly, yet it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
6  I loved you because you were marvellous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
7  There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14