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1  The moment was lost in vulgar details.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  They affect us just as vulgarity affects us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The vulgar directness of the question called for a direct answer.
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8  There was something so crude and vulgar about everything of the kind.
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9  Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box, with a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.
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12  I was going through the park last Sunday, and close by the Marble Arch there stood a little crowd of shabby-looking people listening to some vulgar street-preacher.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar.
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14  To-night, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7