| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: loudly than ever.
"And at home, if there was an outsider present, there was sure to
be a skirmish. Such a life must have been wearisome, and of
course she must have longed for a home of her own. Besides, there
was her age to be considered; there was no time left to pick and
choose; it was a case of marrying anybody, even a Greek master.
And, indeed, most of our young ladies don't mind whom they marry
so long as they do get married. However that may be, Varinka
began to show an unmistakable partiality for Byelikov.
"And Byelikov? He used to visit Kovalenko just as he did us. He
would arrive, sit down, and remain silent. He would sit quiet,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 5: 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien;
Proverbs 5: 11 And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Proverbs 5: 12 And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 5: 13 Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Proverbs 5: 14 I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.'
Proverbs 5: 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 5: 16 Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.
Proverbs 5: 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Proverbs 5: 18 Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 5: 19 A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.
Proverbs 5: 20 Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see
that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is
something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned
that.
Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is
unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell
in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual
experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it
may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven
in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven,
but the horror of hell also. When I think about religion at all, I
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