| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: staircase, listening if any sound were breaking the silence of the
street. She smiled at Brigitte's husband, who was standing sentinel at
the door, and whose eyes seemed stupefied by the intensity of his
attention to the murmurs of the street and night.
Madame de Dey re-entered her salon, affecting gaiety, and began to
play loto with the young people; but after a while she complained of
feeling ill, and returned to her chimney-corner.
Such was the situation of affairs, and of people's minds in the house
of Madame de Dey, while along the road, between Paris and Cherbourg, a
young man in a brown jacket, called a "carmagnole," worn de rigueur at
that period, was making his way to Carentan. When drafts for the army
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: till he excited that vague feeling of indulgence which a woman can
find in her heart for the follies committed for her sake.
An impassioned voice was speaking in the chill solitude; the speaker
brought with him a warm breath of youth and the charms of a carefully
cultivated mind. It was so long since Mme. de Beauseant had felt
stirred by real feeling delicately expressed, that it affected her
very strongly now. In spite of herself, she watched M. de Nueil's
expressive face, and admired the noble countenance of a soul, unbroken
as yet by the cruel discipline of the life of the world, unfretted by
continual scheming to gratify personal ambition and vanity. Gaston was
in the flower of his youth, he impressed her as a man with something
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: therein livelihoods; little is it that ye thank; and we created you,
then we fashioned you, then we said unto the angels, 'Adore Adam,' and
they adored, save Iblis, who was not of those who did adore.
Said He, 'What hinders thee from adoring when I order thee?' he
said, 'I am better than he; Thou hast created me from fire, and him
Thou hast created out of clay.'
Said He, 'Then go down therefrom; what ails thee that thou
shouldst be big with pride therein? go forth! verily, thou art of
the little ones.'
He said, 'Respite me until the day when they shall be raised.' He
said 'Verily, thou art of the respited;' said he, 'For that Thou
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