| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: flesh, now grown pallid and flabby. Her eyes, full of life, were
bright with thoughts that were still young and vivacious, and might be
considered grasping; for there is always something of that spirit in a
gambler. Her fat face bore traces of dissimulation and of the mental
reservations hidden in the depths of her heart. Her vice necessitated
secrecy. There were also indications of gluttony in the motion of her
lips. And thus, although she was, as we have seen, an excellent and
upright woman, the eye might be misled by her appearance. She was an
admirable model for the old woman Joseph wished to paint. Coralie, a
young actress of exquisite beauty who died in the flower of her youth,
the mistress of Lucien de Rubempre, one of Joseph's friends, had given
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: was his wont, but he has gone too far ever to go back
now; nor is there where to go back to. What has he
ever been other than outcast and outlaw? What hopes
could you have engendered in his breast greater than
to be hated and feared among his blood enemies?"
"I knowst not thy reasons, old man," replied the
priest, "for devoting thy life to the ruining of his, and
what I guess at be such as I dare not voice; but let us
understand each other once and for all. For all thou
dost and hast done to blight and curse the nobleness of
his nature, I have done and shall continue to do all in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: Frogs jumped upon the Log and commenced dancing up and down upon
it, thereupon all the Frogs came and did the same; and for some
time the Frogs went about their business every day without taking
the slightest notice of their new King Log lying in their midst.
But this did not suit them, so they sent another petition to Jove,
and said to him, "We want a real king; one that will really rule
over us." Now this made Jove angry, so he sent among them a big
Stork that soon set to work gobbling them all up. Then the Frogs
repented when too late.
Better no rule than cruel rule.
The Mountains in Labour
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