Chapter 8 Quotes Flashcards

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Dorian

‘Unnecessary things are our only…

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necessities.’

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Dorian

‘Had the portrait really changed? or had it been simply his own imagination that had…

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made him see a look of evil where there had been a look of joy?’

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Dorian

‘saw himself face to face. It was perfectly…

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true. The portrait had altered.’

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4
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Dorian

‘He found himself at first gazing at the portrait with a feeling of almost…

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scientific interest.’

new age science life of Victorians

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5
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Dorian

‘gazing at the picture in…

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sickened horror’

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6
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‘But here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin. Here was an…

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ever present sign of the ruin men bought upon their souls.’

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7
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Dorain to LH

‘I can’t bear the idea of my soul…

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being hideous.’

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8
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D to LH

‘You cut life to…

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pieces with your epigrams.’

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9
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Dorian

'’so I have murdered Sibyl Vane, … murdered her as surely…

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as if I had cut her little throat with a knife.’’

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10
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Dorian

‘If I had read this in a book, Harry, I think…

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I would have wept over it.’

he cannot feel his own life, he is like a spectator to his own life, something LH encourages

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11
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Dorian

‘It seems to me to be simply like a wonderful ending to a wonderful play. It has all the terrible beauty of a …

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Greek tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.’

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12
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LH about S

‘There is something beautiful about her…

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death.’

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13
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LH about women

‘They love being…

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dominated.’

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14
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LH

‘The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died. To you at least she was always a dream, a…

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phantom that filled through Shakespeare’s plays and left them lovelier for its presence.’

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15
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LH to D

‘Mourn over Ophelia if you like… But don’t waste your…

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tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.’

he never loved the real version of her

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16
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Dorian

‘She had atoned for everything, by the…

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sacrifice she had made of her life.’

17
Q

Dorian

‘Eternal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys and wilder secrets- he was to…

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have these things. The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all.’

18
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Dorian

‘Once in boyish mockery of Narcissus he had kissed, or feigned to kiss,…

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those painted lips that now smiled so cruelly at him.’

19
Q

Dorian

‘Was it to become a monstrous and loathsome thing, to be hidden away in a locked room… …

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the pity of it! the pity of it!.’

20
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Dorian

‘For there would be a real pleasure in watching it… This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would…

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reveal to him his own soul. And when winter came to it, he would still be standing where spring trembles on the verge of summer.’

spring is a metaphor for young as it is the time of new life.

21
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Dorian

‘Not one blossom of his loveliness would ever…

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fade. Not one pulse of his life would ever weaken.’