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1  All I want now is to look at life.
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2  But I don't want to interrupt you.
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3  I want you to tell me about his mother.
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4  I did not want any external influence in my life.
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5  As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away.
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6  I want you and Basil to come with me some night and see her act.
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7  I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad.
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8  I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture.
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9  Just touch the bell, and when Parker comes I will tell him what you want.
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10  It is only people who pay their bills who want that, Uncle George, and I never pay mine.
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11  If you want to gain a reputation for respectability, you have merely to take them down to supper.
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12  I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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13  "I want him to play to me," cried Lord Henry, smiling, and he looked down the table and caught a bright answering glance.
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14  "Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don't want a life-sized portrait of myself," answered the lad, swinging round on the music-stool in a wilful, petulant manner.
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15  In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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16  He was looking worried, and when he heard Lord Henry's last remark, he glanced at him, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Harry, I want to finish this picture to-day."
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17  He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.
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