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1  I have never searched for happiness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
2  Be always searching for new sensations.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  He glanced about as if in search of something.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  She had sent her soul to search for him, and it had brought him back.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
5  There was a look of contempt in the steady searching gaze that he turned on Dorian.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
6  You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  Well, one evening about seven o'clock, I determined to go out in search of some adventure.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
8  I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening when we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  His extraordinary absences became notorious, and, when he used to reappear again in society, men would whisper to each other in corners, or pass him with a sneer, or look at him with cold searching eyes, as though they were determined to discover his secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11