Through vanity he had spared her.

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The world has cried out against us both, but it has always worshipped you.

Oscar Wilde


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A true friend stabs you in the front, not the back.

Oscar Wilde


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You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no more than the sound of music. It has not marred you.

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For it was an unjust mirror, this mirror of his soul that he was looking at. Vanity? Curiosity? Hypocrisy? Had there been nothing more in his renunciation than that? There had been something more.

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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

Oscar Wilde


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As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.

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now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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Hallward. Had he gone to his aunt's, he would have

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this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves.

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