| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Musing the morning is so much o'erworn,
And yet she hears no tidings of her love;
She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn: 868
Anon she hears them chant it lustily,
And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.
And as she runs, the bushes in the way
Some catch her by the neck, some kiss her face, 872
Some twine about her thigh to make her stay:
She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace,
Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache,
Hasting to feed her fawn hid in some brake. 876
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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: known the world, the fire of her soul is tempered in her eyes by
sacred modesty."
I feel the value of the noble soul revealed in you by many, even
the most trifling, things. This it is which gives me the courage
to ask you, provided you love no one else, to let me prove to you
by my conduct and my devotion that I am not unworthy of you. It
concerns my very life; you cannot doubt that all my powers will be
employed, not only in trying to please you, but in deserving your
esteem, which is more precious to me than any other upon earth.
With this hope, Ursula--if you will suffer me so to call you in my
heart--Nemours will be to me a paradise, the hardest tasks will
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: never did - not really. He was sitting there, the only live thing
for miles along that coast, on a drift-log washed up on the shore.
They had clipped his hair in the hospital, and it had not grown
again. He stared, holding his chin in his hand, and with nothing
on the sea between him and the sky but that wreck. When I came up
to him he just moved his head a bit. 'Is that you, old man?' says
he - like that.
"If you had seen him you would have understood at once how
impossible it was for Freya to have ever loved that man. Well,
well. I don't say. She might have - something. She was lonely,
you know. But really to go away with him! Never! Madness. She
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