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Dorian Gray Quotes Flashcards

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DG (purity, virginity, blank canvas)

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‘youth’s passionate purity’

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DG (youth, purity)

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‘candour of youth’

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DG (appearance)

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‘delightful contrast’

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Basil (appearance)

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‘dull’

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LH -> DG (influence)

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‘seek to dominate him’

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Sybil Vane (appearance)

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‘ordinary’

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DG -> LH (passion)

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‘you filled me with a wild desire’

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DG -> LH (beauty, appearance)

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‘the search for beauty being the real secret of life’

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LH (women, objectification)

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‘women love being dominated’

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LH (marriage)

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‘business transaction’

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LH -> DG (obsession)

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‘he is absolutely necessary to me’

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Basil -> DG (art)

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‘he is all my art to me’

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LH (appearance)

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‘conscience and cowardice are the same things’

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LH (manipulation)

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‘pulling the daisy to bits with his long, nervous fingers’

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LH (influence)

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‘there is no such thing as good influence’

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LH (temptation)

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‘the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield it’

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LH (art)

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‘without art you are nothing’

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LH -> Sybil Vane (appearance)

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‘a third rate actress with a pretty face’ ‘a complete failure’ ‘absolutely incompetent’

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JH (aestheticism, hedonism, influence)

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‘colour of romance’

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Basil -> LH (loss, mourning)

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‘can’t you see that my heart is breaking’

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DG (façade)

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‘looked upon the mask of his shame’

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Basil (homosexuality)

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‘there is nothing to keep me straight’

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