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68 not seeing his own face in a glass.  The moral life of man forms part
80 the symbol do so at their peril.  It is the spectator, and not life,
207 modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.  The commonest thing is
211 deal of romance into one's life.  I suppose you think me awfully
216 it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.  I
225 "I hate the way you talk about your married life, Harry," said Basil
301 itself.  I did not want any external influence in my life.  You know
305 tell me that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life.  I had
441 work, is the best work of my life.  But in some curious way--I wonder
445 life in a way that was hidden from me before.  'A dream of form in days
460 for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I
487 beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.  We
542 friends--those were the fascinating things in life.  He pictured to
595 person who gives to my art whatever charm it possesses:  my life as an
613 "Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don't want a life-sized portrait of
715 actor of a part that has not been written for him.  The aim of life is
733 were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to
833 life--to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means
846 altered him.  Suddenly there had come some one across his life who
847 seemed to have disclosed to him life's mystery.  And, yet, what was
895 or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar.
897 the wonderful life that is in you!  Let nothing be lost upon you.  Be
1003 life that was to make his soul would mar his body.  He would become
1154 only real colour-element left in modern life."
1446 looking at life, suggested so strangely by the merely visible presence
1480 followed his leader in public life and in private life followed the
1588 the colour, the beauty, the joy of life.  The less said about life's
1642 "Yes," he continued, "that is one of the great secrets of life.
1655 hills of life, and mocked the slow Silenus for being sober.  Facts fled
1709 primarily responsible.  But I should like to talk to you about life.
1740 "All I want now is to look at life.  You may come and look at it with
1905 filled me with a wild desire to know everything about life.  For days
1918 of life.  I don't know what I expected, but I went out and wandered
1922 Jew, in the most amazing waistcoat I ever beheld in my life, was
1931 romance of my life.  I see you are laughing.  It is horrid of you!"
1934 should not say the greatest romance of your life.  You should say the
1935 first romance of your life.  You will always be loved, and you will
1950 Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life
1994 in my life.  You said to me once that pathos left you unmoved, but that
2007 everything to me in life.  Night after night I go to see her play.  One
2034 "You could not have helped telling me, Dorian.  All through your life
2041 "People like you--the wilful sunbeams of life--don't commit crimes,
2088 of life.  To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.  But when
2116 in a play.  She knows nothing of life.  She lives with her mother, a
2132 entirely divine.  Every night of my life I go to see her act, and every
2164 all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me!  I
2227 work.  The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his
2252 vivisecting others.  Human life--that appeared to him the one thing
2254 value.  It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of
2262 note the curious hard logic of passion, and the emotional coloured life
2273 something.  Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its
2274 secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were
2279 in its way, a real work of art, life having its elaborate masterpieces,
2303 science that each little spring of life would be revealed to us.  As it
2336 faded rose.  He thought of his friend's young fiery-coloured life and
2373 Mother.  Prince Charming rules life for us now." Then she paused.  A
2489 contented, James, with your sea-faring life," she said.  "You must
2495 right.  I have chosen my own life.  All I say is, watch over Sibyl.
2561 geniuses late in life and never leaves the commonplace.  Sibyl,
2567 heiress whose life he was to save from the wicked, red-shirted
2588 only a year older than he was, but she knew so much more of life.  He
2789 "No," she answered, wondering at the harsh simplicity of life.
2814 accompanied it, the mad melodramatic words, made life seem more vivid
2825 her life would be, now that she had only one child to look after.  She
2898 attitude to take towards life.  We are not sent into the world to air
2909 many other egos.  They are forced to have more than one life.  They
2918 If Dorian Gray's life were spoiled, no one would be sorrier than
2928 contempt for optimism.  As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but
2941 life." He was flushed with excitement and pleasure, and looked
2974 moment.  It seemed to me that all my life had been narrowed to one
3016 of course, in middle-class life.  But then the middle classes are not
3035 "Oh, your theories about life, your theories about love, your theories
3053 life--that is the important thing.  As for the lives of one's
3121 have a new ideal of life.  She will represent something to you that you
3128 than life.  Let us go.  Dorian, you will come with me.  I am so sorry,
3197 to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything
3230 all the life from the verse.  It made the passion unreal.
3295 about life as she does about acting, she will be a delightful
3351 reality of my life.  It was only in the theatre that I lived.  I
3358 reality really is.  To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw
3366 love really is.  My love!  My love!  Prince Charming!  Prince of life!
3399 my life.  How little you can know of love, if you say it mars your art!
3539 torture.  His life was well worth hers.  She had marred him for a
3548 his life, and told his story.  It had taught him to love his own
3572 would return.  They would be happy together.  His life with her would
3660 wondering if ever before it had concealed the secret of a man's life.
3692 Hallward had painted of him would be a guide to him through life, would
3701 scarlet threads of life and to weave them into a pattern; to find his
3718 in, and to explain to him the new life he was going to lead, to quarrel
3770 cut life to pieces with your epigrams."
3826 extraordinarily dramatic life is!  If I had read all this in a book,
3830 life.  Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been
3848 interest in life.  If you had married this girl, you would have been
3891 this:  It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such
3904 love with love for the rest of my life.  The people who have adored
3910 stagnation it reveals!  One should absorb the colour of life, but one
3926 assured me that I had spoiled her life.  I am bound to state that she
3947 that women find in modern life.  Indeed, I have not mentioned the most
3976 if she died as Juliet, she came to life as Imogen."
3978 "She will never come to life again now," muttered the lad, burying his
3981 "No, she will never come to life.  She has played her last part.  But
3989 actual life, she marred it, and it marred her, and so she passed away.
4004 That is all.  I wonder if life has still in store for me anything as
4042 conscious of the events of life as they occurred.  The vicious cruelty
4055 sacrifice she had made of her life.  He would not think any more of
4065 his choice already been made?  Yes, life had decided that for
4066 him--life, and his own infinite curiosity about life.  Eternal youth,
4085 unchanged.  And yet, who, that knew anything about life, would
4107 his life would ever weaken.  Like the gods of the Greeks, he would be
4223 spent twenty years of his life in trying to get some grievance
4234 that yellow satin could console one for all the miseries of life.  I
4239 me.  To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to
4240 escape the suffering of life.  I know you are surprised at my talking
4246 stronger--you are too much afraid of life--but you are better.  And how
4327 shown his secret?  Were people to gape at the mystery of his life?
4437 idolatry?  Was that one of the things that life had in store?
4455 the one person in my life who has really influenced my art.  Whatever I
4479 improbable.  Just the sort of life I would like to lead.  But still I
4487 "You spoil my life as an artist by refusing, Dorian.  No man comes
4491 There is something fatal about a portrait.  It has a life of its own.
4663 secret of his life and hide his soul from the eyes of men.
4681 life, and it seemed horrible to him that it was here the fatal portrait
4692 should be so full of shame.  Some love might come across his life, and
4724 concealed the secret of his life.  "I shan't trouble you any more now.
4798 spent his life trying to realize in the nineteenth century all the
4809 colour.  The life of the senses was described in the terms of mystical
4857 life, written before he had lived it.
4862 water which came upon the young Parisian so early in his life, and was
4874 rumours about his mode of life crept through London and became the
4907 That curiosity about life which Lord Henry had first stirred in him, as
4931 And, certainly, to him life itself was the first, the greatest, of the
4949 cane.  He sought to elaborate some new scheme of life that would have
4973 that was to recreate life and to save it from that harsh uncomely
4981 teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is
4988 itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques,
5001 mirrors get back their mimic life.  The flameless tapers stand where we
5006 comes back the real life that we had known.  We have to resume it where
5018 to be the true object, or amongst the true objects, of life; and in his
5062 before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance
5063 compared with life itself.  He felt keenly conscious of how barren all
5071 its counterpart in the sensuous life, and set himself to discover their
5198 How exquisite life had once been!  How gorgeous in its pomp and
5268 into panels representing scenes from the life of the Virgin, and the
5293 the real degradation of his life, and in front of it had draped the
5309 that was such a part of his life, and was also afraid that during his
5323 luxury and gorgeous splendour of his mode of life, he would suddenly
5365 life.  Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold _entrees_, as
5386 face, which kept him not long company."  Was it young Herbert's life
5391 so changed his life?  Here, in gold-embroidered red doublet, jewelled
5401 green rosettes upon her little pointed shoes.  He knew her life, and
5430 was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act
5438 The hero of the wonderful novel that had so influenced his life had
5449 on those to whom life denies nothing; and had peered through a clear
5616 about him.  His life is dreadful.  But you, Dorian, with your pure,
5639 Perth?  What sort of life has he got now?  What gentleman would
5645 It is because I know everything about his life, not because he knows
5682 about your country-house and the life that is led there?  Dorian, you
5687 to you.  I want you to lead such a life as will make the world respect
5724 all his shame was to be burdened for the rest of his life with the
5744 right had he to pry into the life of Dorian Gray?  If he had done a
5760 upstairs, Basil," he said quietly.  "I keep a diary of my life from day
5788 everything about me.  You have had more to do with my life than you
5885 is true," he exclaimed, "and this is what you have done with your life,
5890 Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were
5917 "Hush!  Don't say that.  You have done enough evil in your life.  My
5925 more than in his whole life he had ever loathed anything.  He glanced
5975 life.  That was enough.
6208 life.  Whether or not a quarrel had taken place between them no one
6259 was a matter of life and death."  His voice was hard and cold.  He
6265 "Yes:  it is a matter of life and death, Alan, and to more than one
6282 decline to be mixed up in your life.  Keep your horrible secrets to
6325 me suffer.  Whatever my life is, he had more to do with the making or
6452 "Hush, Alan.  You have saved my life," said Dorian.
6454 "Your life?  Good heavens! what a life that is!  You have gone from
6457 life that I am thinking."
6511 forgotten, for the first time in his life, to hide the fatal canvas,
6568 double life.
6580 she was extremely glad she had not met him in early life.  "I know, my
6598 pure unadulterated country life.  They get up early, because they have
6742 tell me that you have exhausted life.  When a man says that one knows
6743 that life has exhausted him.  Lord Henry is very wicked, and I
7003 disordered life, the very vileness of thief and outcast, were more
7149 if the ruin of that young life was really to be laid at his door, as
7153 another's errors on one's shoulders.  Each man lived his own life and
7177 He struggled madly for life, and by a terrible effort wrenched the
7188 "You wrecked the life of Sibyl Vane," was the answer, "and Sibyl Vane
7224 not the man who had destroyed her life.
7254 money.  I want a man's life.  The man whose life I want must be nearly
7473 intensifies it.  We can have in life but one great experience at best,
7474 and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as
7522 "Pace gives life," was the _riposte_.
7604 indifferent to life itself.  The consciousness of being hunted, snared,
7614 life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the
7630 visible form, and make them move before one!  What sort of life would
7645 seemed to bring him back his joyousness and his ardour for life.  But
7862 "It was my _debut_ in life," she sighed.
7977 discovery that would either make or mar his life.  Then he thrust the
8008 things in my life.  I am not going to do any more.  I began my good
8114 course, married life is merely a habit, a bad habit.  But then one
8156 Henry, laughing.  "That is one of the most important secrets of life.
8201 Lord Henry laughed.  "If a man treats life artistically, his brain is
8268 What an exquisite life you have had!  You have drunk deeply of
8275 "Yes, you are the same.  I wonder what the rest of your life will be.
8290 have to live the strangest month of my life over again.  I wish I could
8300 "Yes, life has been exquisite," he murmured, "but I am not going to
8301 have the same life, Harry.  And you must not say these extravagant
8394 that.  Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure
8412 life might have been free from stain.  His beauty had been to him but a
8426 portrait that had marred his life.  He could not forgive him that.  It
8433 A new life!  That was what he wanted.  That was what he was waiting
8440 had been?  Perhaps if his life became pure, he would be able to expel
8484 But this murder--was it to dog him all his life?  Was he always to be
8500 monstrous soul-life, and without its hideous warnings, he would be at
8808 people in all walks of life.