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1  He seemed broken with shame and sorrow.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
2  Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  There was neither real sorrow in it nor real joy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  I have sorrows, Dorian, of my own, that even you know nothing of.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
6  The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The joy of Beatrice was my joy, and the sorrows of Cordelia were mine also.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  Yes," answered Hallward gravely, and with deep-toned sorrow in his voice, "to see your soul.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  He was like one of those gracious figures in a pageant or a play, whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one's sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  The harsh intervals and shrill discords of barbaric music stirred him at times when Schubert's grace, and Chopin's beautiful sorrows, and the mighty harmonies of Beethoven himself, fell unheeded on his ear.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  It was with an almost cruel joy--and perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place--that he used to read the latter part of the book, with its really tragic, if somewhat overemphasized, account of the sorrow and despair of one who had himself lost what in others, and the world, he had most dearly valued.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11