| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: on the beautiful, worn face, where toil and care were already drawing
lines of wrinkles.
"It is for me he spends his nights in writing," she said to herself,
weeping.
A thought dried her tears. She would imitate Luigi. That same day she
went to a print-shop, and, by help of a letter of recommendation she
had obtained from Elie Magus, one of her picture-dealers, she obtained
an order for the coloring of lithographs. During the day she painted
her pictures and attended to the cares of the household; then, when
night came, she colored the engravings. This loving couple entered
their nuptial bed only to deceive each other; both feigned sleep, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: All the livelong night beguiles.
Sweet moans, dovelike sighs,
Chase not slumber from thy eyes!
Sweet moans, sweeter smiles,
All the dovelike moans beguiles.
Sleep, sleep, happy child!
All creation slept and smiled.
Sleep, sleep, happy sleep,
While o'er thee thy mother weep.
Sweet babe, in thy face
Holy image I can trace;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: me because it showed I had left the innocent East far behind and
was come to a country where a man must look out for himself. The
very hotels bristled with notices about keeping my door locked
and depositing my valuables in a safe. The white man in a lump
is bad. Weeping softly for O-Toyo (little I knew then that my
heart was to be torn afresh from my bosom) I fell asleep in the
clanging hotel.
Next morning I had entered upon the deferred inheritance. There
are no princes in America--at least with crowns on their
heads--but a generous-minded member of some royal family received
my letter of introduction. Ere the day closed I was a member of
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