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He knew that when he was alone he would have to examine the portrait. He was afraid of certainty.

First in the dim twilight, and then in the bright dawn, he had seen the touch of cruelty round the warped lips.

Suddenly his eye fell on the screen that he had placed in front of the portrait, and he started.

It was an exquisite day. The warm air seemed laden with spices. A bee flew in, and buzzed round the blue-dragon bowl that, filled with sulphur-yellow roses, stood before him. He felt perfectly happ

A dim sense of having taken part in some strange tragedy came to him once or twice, but there was the unreality of

bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were

which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie

Dorian's whims are laws to everybody, except himself.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies