1 A terrible hope fluttered past him.
2 It was long past noon when he awoke.
3 The past could always be annihilated.
4 It was better not to think of the past.
5 It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.
6 "I like men who have a future and women who have a past," he answered.
7 "Ten minutes past two, sir," answered the man, looking at the clock and blinking.
8 He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past.
9 For some months past she had felt ill at ease when she was alone with this rough stern son of hers.
10 He remembered wandering through dimly lit streets, past gaunt, black-shadowed archways and evil-looking houses.
11 The trees seemed to sweep past him in spectral procession, and wild shadows to fling themselves across his path.
12 Two green-and-white butterflies fluttered past them, and in the pear-tree at the corner of the garden a thrush began to sing.
13 Suddenly she caught a glimpse of golden hair and laughing lips, and in an open carriage with two ladies Dorian Gray drove past.
14 A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.
15 "American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as English women are at concealing their past," he said, rising to go.
16 All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
17 When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.
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