| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: share her father's and mother's heart with too many people; she was
jealous of every one, even of her brothers and sisters. Then, after
creating a desert about her, the strange girl accused all nature of
her unreal solitude and her wilful griefs. Strong in the experience of
her twenty years, she blamed fate, because, not knowing that the
mainspring of happiness is in ourselves, she demanded it of the
circumstances of life. She would have fled to the ends of the earth to
escape a marriage such as those of her two sisters, and nevertheless
her heart was full of horrible jealousy at seeing them married, rich,
and happy. In short, she sometimes led her mother--who was as much a
victim to her vagaries as Monsieur de Fontaine--to suspect that she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: Revolution he had studied law in his father's office; so Monsieur de
Serizy granted his request.
"You can never advance in life," he said to Moreau, "for you have
broken your neck; but you can be happy, and I will take care that you
are so."
He gave Moreau a salary of three thousand francs and his residence in
a charming lodge near the chateau, all the wood he needed from the
timber that was cut on the estate, oats, hay, and straw for two
horses, and a right to whatever he wanted of the produce of the
gardens. A sub-prefect is not as well provided for.
During the first eight years of his stewardship, Moreau managed the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: door and the skylight, and the door was impossible.
Quickly he tilted the cot against the door, wedging its
legs against a crack in the floor--that would stop them for a
minute or two. then he wheeled the dresser beneath the sky-
light and, placing the chair on top of it, scrambled to the
seat of the latter. His head was at the height of the sky-
light. to force the skylight from its frame required but a
moment. A key entered the lock of the door from the op-
posite side and turned. He knew that someone without was
pushing. Then he heard an oath and heavy battering upon
the panels. A moment later he had drawn himself through
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