| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: angel who came to him and said: 'Go to Pashenka and learn from
her what you have to do, what your sin is, and wherein lies your
salvation.'
He awoke, and having decided that this was a vision sent by God,
he felt glad, and resolved to do what had been told him in the
vision. He knew the town where she lived. It was some three
hundred versts (two hundred miles) away, and he set out to walk
there.
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Pashenka had already long ceased to be Pashenka and had become
old, withered, wrinkled Praskovya Mikhaylovna, mother-in-law of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: things to do than to take his revenge upon a sick and sad woman
like me. See, take my hand. I am in a fever. I left my bed to
come to you, and ask, not for your friendship, but for your
indifference."
I took Marguerite's hand. It was burning, and the poor woman
shivered under her fur cloak.
I rolled the arm-chair in which she was sitting up to the fire.
"Do you think, then, that I did not suffer," said I, "on that
night when, after waiting for you in the country, I came to look
for you in Paris, and found nothing but the letter which nearly
drove me mad? How could you have deceived me, Marguerite, when I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Sang of the white feet of the Golden Girl:
And bid him look
Into thy pages: it may hap that he
May find that golden maidens dance through thee.
Poem: Roses And Rue
(To L. L.)
Could we dig up this long-buried treasure,
Were it worth the pleasure,
We never could learn love's song,
We are parted too long.
Could the passionate past that is fled
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