| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: despise me. I don't deserve contempt. I'm simply unhappy. If any
one is unhappy, I am," she articulated, and turning away, she
burst into tears.
Left alone, Darya Alexandrovna said her prayers and went to bed.
She had felt for Anna with all her heart while she was speaking
to her, but now she could not force herself to think of her. The
memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination
with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with a sort of new
brilliance. That world of her own seemed to her now so sweet and
precious that she would not on any account spend an extra day
outside it, and she made up her mind that she would certainly go
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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: or enduring it to get quits with the world; they were either resigned,
or breathing vengeance; but here is remorse without expiation, remorse
pure and simple, fastening on its prey and rending him."
The judge stopped Minoret and said: "Do you know that Mademoiselle
Mirouet has refused your son's hand?"
"But," interposed the abbe, "do not be uneasy; she will prevent the
duel."
"Ah, then my wife succeeded?" said Minoret. "I am very glad, for it
nearly killed me."
"You are, indeed, so changed that you are no longer like yourself,"
remarked Bongrand.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: It was curious, that having just left you behind me in Bath,
my first and principal acquaintance on marrying should be your cousin;
and that, through him, I should be continually hearing of your father
and sister. He described one Miss Elliot, and I thought
very affectionately of the other."
"Perhaps," cried Anne, struck by a sudden idea, "you sometimes
spoke of me to Mr Elliot?"
"To be sure I did; very often. I used to boast of my own Anne Elliot,
and vouch for your being a very different creature from--"
She checked herself just in time.
"This accounts for something which Mr Elliot said last night,"
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