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1  "Quite ready, James," she answered, keeping her eyes on her work.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  It is simply disgraceful of your servant hiding my work like that.
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3  I have got to work up this background, so I will join you later on.
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4  He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
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5  Basil, my dear boy, puts everything that is charming in him into his work.
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6  It was certainly a wonderful work of art, and a wonderful likeness as well.
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7  He was dimly conscious that entirely fresh influences were at work within him.
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8  If you wish the best work I have ever done to be hidden from the world, I am satisfied.
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9  "It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry languidly.
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10  "I am glad you appreciate my work at last, Dorian," said the painter coldly when he had recovered from his surprise.
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11  But, really, it seems rather absurd that I shouldn't see my own work, especially as I am going to exhibit it in Paris in the autumn.
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12  Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
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13  There is nothing that art cannot express, and I know that the work I have done, since I met Dorian Gray, is good work, is the best work of my life.
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14  Harry, I can't quarrel with my two best friends at once, but between you both you have made me hate the finest piece of work I have ever done, and I will destroy it.
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15  The sweep and dash of the brush on the canvas made the only sound that broke the stillness, except when, now and then, Hallward stepped back to look at his work from a distance.
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16  "Just turn your head a little more to the right, Dorian, like a good boy," said the painter, deep in his work and conscious only that a look had come into the lad's face that he had never seen there before.
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17  But now and then a complex personality took the place and assumed the office of art, was indeed, in its way, a real work of art, life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.
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