| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: Diary was not destroyed. The second - that he took unusual
precautions to confound the cipher in "rogueish" passages -
proves, beyond question, that he was thinking of some other
reader besides himself. Perhaps while his friends were
admiring the "greatness of his behaviour" at the approach of
death, he may have had a twinkling hope of immortality. MENS
CUJUSQUE IS EST QUISQUE, said his chosen motto; and, as he
had stamped his mind with every crook and foible in the pages
of the Diary, he might feel that what he left behind him was
indeed himself. There is perhaps no other instance so
remarkable of the desire of man for publicity and an enduring
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: destroyed this hope, and paid by impertinent irony for the love
which I had accepted during two nights. What I had done was
therefore not merely ridiculous, it was indelicate. I had not
even paid the woman, that I might have some right to find fault
with her; withdrawing after two days, was I not like a parasite
of love, afraid of having to pay the bill of the banquet? What! I
had only known Marguerite for thirty-six hours; I had been her
lover for only twenty-four; and instead of being too happy that
she should grant me all that she did, I wanted to have her all to
myself, and to make her sever at one stroke all her past
relations which were the revenue of her future. What had I to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: ACT 1:12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called
Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
ACT 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room,
where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and
Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon
Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
ACT 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and
supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his
brethren.
ACT 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the
disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred
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