| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: accordance with the teachings of Christ.
To very many persons the thoughts I have uttered here and in "The
Kreutzer Sonata" will seem strange, vague, even contradictory.
They certainly do contradict, not each other, but the whole tenor
of our lives, and involuntarily a doubt arises, "on which side is
truth,--on the side of the thoughts which seem true and
well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself?"
I, too, was weighed down by that same doubt when writing "The
Kreutzer Sonata." I had not the faintest presentiment that the
train of thought I had started would lead me whither it did. I
was terrified by my own conclusion, and I was at first disposed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: come forth from it.
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MYRRHINA. Honorius.
HONORIUS (from within). Who calls Honorius?
MYRRHINA. Come forth, Honorius.
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My chamber is ceiled with cedar and odorous with myrrh. The pillars
of my bed are of cedar and the hangings are of purple. My bed is
strewn with purple and the steps are of silver. The hangings are
sewn with silver pomegranates and the steps that are of silver are
strewn with saffron and with myrrh. My lovers hang garlands round
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: society in which they were born were broken down before them; the
old principles which had governed the world for ages were no
more; a path without a turn and a field without an horizon were
opened to the exploring and ardent curiosity of man: but at the
limits of the political world he checks his researches, he
discreetly lays aside the use of his most formidable faculties,
he no longer consents to doubt or to innovate, but carefully
abstaining from raising the curtain of the sanctuary, he yields
with submissive respect to truths which he will not discuss.
Thus, in the moral world everything is classed, adapted, decided,
and foreseen; in the political world everything is agitated,
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