| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: as a man of honour is bound to pay the woman whom he keeps, by
all means; but that you should come to forget the most sacred
things for her, that you should let the report of your scandalous
life reach my quiet countryside, and set a blot on the honourable
name that I have given you, it can not, it shall not be."
"Permit me to tell you, father, that those who have given you
information about me have been ill-informed. I am the lover of
Mlle. Gautier; I live with her; it is the most natural thing in
the world. I do not give Mlle. Gautier the name you have given
me; I spend on her account what my means allow me to spend; I
have no debts; and, in short, I am not in a position which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: RIVERS TO THE SEA
The Cyprian, the mother of the world;
She gave me love who only asked for death--
I who had seen much sorrow in men's eyes
And in my own too sorrowful a fire.
I was a sister of the stars, and yet
Shaken with pain; sister of birds and yet
The wings that bore my soul were very tired.
I watched the careless spring too many times
Light her green torches in a hungry wind;
Too many times I watched them flare, and then
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: else in Muller's mentality, and now and then it brings him into
conflict with the department, ... or with his own better nature.
Sometimes his unerring instinct discovers secrets in high places,
secrets which the Police Department is bidden to hush up and leave
untouched. Muller is then taken off the case, and left idle for
a while if he persists in his opinion as to the true facts. And
at other times, Muller's own warm heart gets him into trouble. He
will track down his victim, driven by the power in his soul which
is stronger than all volition; but when he has this victim in the
net, he will sometimes discover him to be a much finer, better man
than the other individual, whose wrong at this particular criminal's
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