| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: violence of those who misbelieve, for God is more violent and more
severe to punish.
Whoso intercedes with a good intercession shall have a portion
therefrom; but he who intercedes with a bad intercession shall have
the like thereof, for God keeps watch over all things.
And when ye are saluted with a salutation, salute with a better than
it, or return it;- verily, God of all things takes account.
God, there is no God but He! He will surely assemble you on the
resurrection day, there is no doubt therein; who is truer than God
in his discourse?
Why are ye two parties about the hypocrites, when God hath
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: "That she is the sort of young lady who expects a man, sooner or later,
to carry her off?"
"I haven't the least idea what such young ladies expect a man to do.
But I really think that you had better not meddle with little American
girls that are uncultivated, as you call them. You have lived too long
out of the country. You will be sure to make some great mistake.
You are too innocent."
"My dear aunt, I am not so innocent," said Winterbourne,
smiling and curling his mustache.
"You are guilty too, then!"
Winterbourne continued to curl his mustache meditatively.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: love with Tullia, poor devil.
" 'Tullia' (so he said) 'had left the stage to be his alone, to be a
good and charming wife.' And somehow Tullia managed to induce the most
Puritanical members of du Bruel's family to accept her. From the very
first, before any one suspected her motives, she assiduously visited
old Mme. de Bonfalot, who bored her horribly; she made handsome
presents to mean old Mme. de Chisse, du Bruel's great-aunt; she spent
a summer with the latter lady, and never missed a single mass. She
even went to confession, received absolution, and took the sacrament;
but this, you must remember, was in the country, and under the aunt's
eyes.
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