1 Yes, perhaps Basil, too, had his secret.
2 Of course, our engagement is a dead secret.
3 Her shallow secret nature was troubled when their eyes met.
4 Her parted lips were smiling over some secret of their own.
5 He would be able to follow his mind into its secret places.
6 Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his soul, and desire had come to meet it on the way.
7 He scanned it curiously, wondering if ever before it had concealed the secret of a man's life.
8 But I know that as I worked at it, every flake and film of colour seemed to me to reveal my secret.
9 Basil," he said, coming over quite close and looking him straight in the face, "we have each of us a secret.
10 Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret.
11 Eternal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys and wilder sins--he was to have all these things.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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