| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: her better than her dearest friends, and confirming the assurance
by the appeal of her exquisite nearness, he was ready to swear
that such a marriage was a desecration, and that, as a man of
honour, he was bound to do all he could to protect her from the
results of her disinterestedness. This impulse was reinforced by
the reflection that if she had married Gryce she would have been
surrounded by flattery and approval, whereas, having refused to
sacrifice herself to expediency, she was left to bear the whole
cost of her resistance. Hang it, if he could find a way out of
such difficulties for a professional sponge like Carry Fisher,
who was simply a mental habit corresponding to the physical
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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: to relate the three dreams to the Abbe Chaperon.
"Monsieur l'abbe," she said, "do you believe that the dead reappear?"
"My child, sacred history, profane history, and modern history, have
much testimony to that effect; but the Church has never made it an
article of faith; and as for science, in France science laughs at the
idea."
"What do YOU believe?"
"That the power of God is infinite."
"Did my godfather ever speak to you of such matters?"
"Yes, often. He had entirely changed his views of them. His
conversion, as he told me at least twenty times, dated from the day
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: cubits force him! verily, he believed not in the mighty God, nor was
he particular to feed the poor: therefore he has not here to-day any
warm friend, nor any food except foul ichor, which none save sinners
shall eat!'
I need not swear by what ye see or what ye do not see, verily, it is
the speech of a noble apostle; and it is not the speech of a
poet:-little is it ye believe!
And it is not the speech of a soothsayer,-little is it that ye
mind!-a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
Why if he had invented against us any sayings, we would have
seized him by the right hand, then we would have cut his jugular vein;
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