| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: a bay horse that would not let him mount. A little light hussar
in tight ridingbreeches rode off at a gallop, crouched up like a
cat on the saddle, in imitation of English jockeys. Prince
Kuzovlev sat with a white face on his thoroughbred mare from the
Grabovsky stud, while an English groom led her by the bridle.
Vronsky and all his comrades knew Kuzovlev and his peculiarity of
"weak nerves" and terrible vanity. They knew that he was afraid
of everything, afraid of riding a spirited horse. But now, just
because h was terrible, because people broke their necks, and
there was a doctor standing at each obstacle, and an ambulance
with a cross on it, and a sister of mercy, he had made up his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: doctor.
"God is very good, Monsieur l'abbe, to do miracles for me," he said,
danger inspiring him to make the sole jest of his life.
"All that God does is natural," replied the priest.
"Your phantoms don't frighten me," said the colossus, recovering his
coolness.
"I did not come to frighten you, for I shall never speak of this to
any one in the world," said the abbe. "You alone know the truth. The
matter is between you and God."
"Come now, Monsieur l'abbe, do you really think me capable of such a
horrible abuse of confidence?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: yet in ordinary cases they are sometimes brought unconsciously
into momentary action by ludicrously slight causes.
A gentleman rewarded a young lady by an absurdly small present;
she pretended to be offended, and as she upbraided him, her eyebrows
became extremely oblique, with the forehead properly wrinkled.
Another young lady and a youth, both in the highest spirits,
were eagerly talking together with extraordinary rapidity;
and I noticed that, as often as the young lady was beaten,
and could not get out her words fast enough, her eyebrows
went obliquely upwards, and rectangular furrows were formed
on her forehead. She thus each time hoisted a flag of distress;
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