| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: The doctor was extremely dissatisfied with Alexey Alexandrovitch.
He found the liver considerably enlarged, and the digestive
powers weakened, while the course of mineral waters had been
quite without effect. He prescribed more physical exercise as far
as possible, and as far as possible less mental strain, and above
all no worry--in other words, just what was as much out of Alexey
Alexandrovitch's power as abstaining from breathing. Then he
withdrew, leaving in Alexey Alexandrovitch an unpleasant sense
that something was wrong with him, and that there was no chance
of curing it.
As he was coming away, the doctor chanced to meet on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: seek, if only to make a plaything of him,--that power which they
consent to obey, if only for the pleasure of subduing it; at last she
had found the grandeurs of the intellect united with the simplicity of
a heart all new to love; and she saw, with untold happiness, that
these merits were contained in a form that pleased her. She thought
d'Arthez handsome, and perhaps he was. Though he had reached the age
of gravity (for he was now thirty-eight), he still preserved a flower
of youth, due to the sober and ascetic life which he had led. Like all
men of sedentary habits, and statesmen, he had acquired a certainly
reasonable embonpoint. When very young, he bore some resemblance to
Bonaparte; and the likeness still continued, as much as a man with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: face, whaur its hieest and steighest. Fower tenty lads were on the
tap, hauldin' the line and mindin' for his signals. But whaur Tam hung
there was naething but the craig, and the sea belaw, and the solans
skirlin and flying. It was a braw spring morn, and Tam whustled as he
claught in the young geese. Mony's the time I've heard him tell of
this experience, and aye the swat ran upon the man.
It chanced, ye see, that Tam keeked up, and he was awaur of a muckle
solan, and the solan pyking at the line. He thocht this by-ordinar and
outside the creature's habits. He minded that ropes was unco saft
things, and the solan's neb and the Bass Rock unco hard, and that twa
hunner feet were raither mair than he would care to fa'.
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