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1  But we never get back our youth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The mask of youth had saved him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  But youth smiles without any reason.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  It's absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth's passionate purity.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  For there is such a little time that your youth will last--such a little time.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The pulse and passion of youth were in him, but he was becoming self-conscious.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  He had been a macaroni of the eighteenth century, and the friend, in his youth, of Lord Ferrars.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Play me a nocturne, Dorian, and, as you play, tell me, in a low voice, how you have kept your youth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Then had come Lord Henry Wotton with his strange panegyric on youth, his terrible warning of its brevity.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  Eternal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys and wilder sins--he was to have all these things.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  The passersby glanced in wonder at the sullen heavy youth who, in coarse, ill-fitting clothes, was in the company of such a graceful, refined-looking girl.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  One day you introduced me to a friend of yours, who explained to me the wonder of youth, and you finished a portrait of me that revealed to me the wonder of beauty.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  Dim and wavering as was the wind-blown light, yet it served to show him the hideous error, as it seemed, into which he had fallen, for the face of the man he had sought to kill had all the bloom of boyhood, all the unstained purity of youth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  Of such insolences and attempted slights he, of course, took no notice, and in the opinion of most people his frank debonair manner, his charming boyish smile, and the infinite grace of that wonderful youth that seemed never to leave him, were in themselves a sufficient answer to the calumnies, for so they termed them, that were circulated about him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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