Doiran Gray quotes Flashcards

(31 cards)

1
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“This young ______, who looks like he was made out of ______ and ______ leaves…he is a ______.”

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[Answer: Adonis / ivory / rose / Narcissus]

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“He stood gazing at the ______ of his own ______.”

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[Answer: loveliness / shadow]

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“Be always searching for new ______. Be afraid of ______… A new ______.

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Henry - Chapter Two
[Answer: sensations / nothing / Hedonism

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“If it were I who was to be always ______, and the ______ was to grow old! For that — for that — I would give ______! I would give my ______ for that!”

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Dorian - Chapter Two
[Answer: young / picture / everything / soul]

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5
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“Dorian Gray never took his ______ off him, but sat like one under a ______ … wonder growing grave in his ______ eyes.”

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Dorian - Chapter Two
[Answer: gaze / spell / darkening]

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“Grey monstrous ______ of ours, with its myriads of ______, its sordid ______ and its splendid ______.”

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Dorian - Chapter Four
[Answer: London / people / sinners / sins]

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“But you were ______, ______, and ______ then. You were the most unspoiled creature in the whole world.”

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Basil - Chapter Nine
[Answer: simple / natural / affectionate]

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8
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“What the ______ was to the corpse, his ______ would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its ______.”

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Dorian - Chapter Ten
[Answer: worm / sins / beauty]

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“Had some strange poisonous ______ crept from body to body till it had reached his own?”

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Dorian - Chapter Eleven
[Answer: germ]

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10
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“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s ______.”

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Basil - Chapter Twelve
[Answer: face]

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11
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“He felt keenly the terrible ______ of a ______ life.”

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Dorian - Chapter Fifteen
[Answer: pleasure / double]

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12
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“The ______ of youth had saved him.”

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Dorian - Chapter Eighteen
[Answer: mask]

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13
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“In a wild hour of ______ he had killed his friend!… Each hideous ______ came back to him with added ______.”

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Dorian - Chapter Eighteen
[Answer: madness / detail / horror]

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14
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“You ______ me with a ______ once.

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Dorian - Chapter Nineteen
[Answer: poisoned / book]

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15
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“Loathsome red ______ that gleamed, wet and glistening, on one of the ______.”

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Chapter Fourteen
[Answer: dew / hands]

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16
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“Lying on the floor was a dead man, in ______ dress, with a ______ in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and ______ of visage.”

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Chapter Twenty
[Answer: evening / knife / loathsome]

17
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“He had seen the touch of ______ round the warped ______.” (Page 84)

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He had seen the touch of cruelty round the warped lips.”

18
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“A visible symbol of the ______ of his ______.” (Page 85)

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“A visible symbol of the degradation of his sin.”

19
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“He wondered and hoped that someday he would see the ______ change taking place before ______ as he hoped it.”

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Portrait, shuddering

20
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He […] lay there, ______ at the portrait in sickened ______.” (Page 85)

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Gazing, horror

21
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“A cry of ______ broke from the lad’s ______.”

22
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“Wild joys and wilder sins – he was to have all these things. The ______ was to bear the ______ – that was all.”

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Portrait, burden

23
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She had no right to ______ herself. It was ______ of her.

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Kill, Selfish

24
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“Don’t waste your ______ on ______ ______.”

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“There would be a real ______ in watching it [...] the most ______ of mirrors.
Pleasure, Mirrors
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“He felt as if his ______ had changed in a moment from ______ to sluggish ______.”
Blood, Fire, Ice
27
Each of us has ______ and ______ in him.”
Heaven, Hell
28
“Forgive us our ______. Wash away our ______.
iniquities
29
“The mad ______ of a ______ animal stirred him. ch13
Passions, Animal
30
“He rushed at him and dug the ______ into the great ______ that is behind the ear, crushing the man's head down on the ______ and stabbing again and again.” Ch13
Knife, Vein, Table
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“He felt strangely ______.
Calm