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Quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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1  Man is many things, but he is not rational.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  There are exquisite things in store for you.
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3  Facts fled before her like frightened forest things.
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4  I see things differently, I think of them differently.
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5  When I was in the Diplomatic, things were much better.
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6  His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed.
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7  Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil.
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8  We practical men like to see things, not to read about them.
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9  Yes; there had been things in his boyhood that he had not understood.
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10  As a rule, he is charming to me, and we sit in the studio and talk of a thousand things.
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11  An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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12  One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends--those were the fascinating things in life.
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13  I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said.
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14  There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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15  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.
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16  Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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17  He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
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