| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: act. When he had poured into her heart the dreadful elegy of his woes,
she said, in order to make him willing to live:--
"I can arrange all that."
But, nevertheless, she returned home with a heart oppressed with the
same anxieties and ideas that had darkened Nathan's brow the night
before.
"Well, what was the matter with your sister?" said Felix, when his
wife returned. "You look distressed."
"It is a dreadful history about which I am bound to secrecy," she
said, summoning all her nerve to appear calm before him.
In order to be alone and to think at her ease, she went to the Opera
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: Nor half a halfpenny to shun grim death,
Since for to live is but to seek to die,
And dying but beginning of new life.
Let come the hour when he that rules it will!
To live or die I hold indifferent.
[Exeunt.]
ACT IV. SCENE V. The same. The French Camp.
[Enter King John and Charles.]
KING JOHN.
A sudden darkness hath defaced the sky,
The winds are crept into their caves for fear,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: It is the only way in which I may atone for the wrong I have
done a very good woman. Take my pistol and do as I bid."
"It would be murder," replied De Coude. "But what wrong
did you do my wife? She swore to me that--"
"I do not mean that," said Tarzan quickly. "You saw all
the wrong that passed between us. But that was enough to
cast a shadow upon her name, and to ruin the happiness of
a man against whom I had no enmity. The fault was all
mine, and so I hoped to die for it this morning. I am
disappointed that monsieur is not so wonderful a marksman
as I had been led to believe."
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