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1  Yes, perhaps Basil, too, had his secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
2  Of course, our engagement is a dead secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
3  Her shallow secret nature was troubled when their eyes met.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Her parted lips were smiling over some secret of their own.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  He would be able to follow his mind into its secret places.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his soul, and desire had come to meet it on the way.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
7  He scanned it curiously, wondering if ever before it had concealed the secret of a man's life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
8  But I know that as I worked at it, every flake and film of colour seemed to me to reveal my secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
9  Basil," he said, coming over quite close and looking him straight in the face, "we have each of us a secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
10  Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
11  Eternal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys and wilder sins--he was to have all these things.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
12  He felt ready to leap upon him and fling him to the ground if he dared to lift the gorgeous hanging that concealed the secret of his life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
14  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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
15  "I am afraid it is rather heavy," murmured Dorian as he unlocked the door that opened into the room that was to keep for him the curious secret of his life and hide his soul from the eyes of men.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
16  The few words that Basil's friend had said to him--words spoken by chance, no doubt, and with wilful paradox in them--had touched some secret chord that had never been touched before, but that he felt was now vibrating and throbbing to curious pulses.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  On his return he would sit in front of the picture, sometimes loathing it and himself, but filled, at other times, with that pride of individualism that is half the fascination of sin, and smiling with secret pleasure at the misshapen shadow that had to bear the burden that should have been his own.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
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