| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: So let them pass, these songs of mine;
I sting too hot with life to whine!
Still shall I struggle, fail, aspire,
Lose God, and find Gods in the mire,
And drink dream-deep life's heady wine--
So let them pass, these songs of mine.
DAYLIGHT HUMORS
THIS IS ANOTHER DAY
I AM mine own priest, and I shrive myself
Of all my wasted yesterdays. Though sin
And sloth and foolishness, and all ill weeds
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: choose to WEAR it," she had written: then it was certainly a
secret connected with his personal history.
Further, it appeared that "Jean" was sent to him with "an
order." What could this be, but one of the nine orders for money
which lay before my eyes? I examined the dates of the latter, and
lo! there was one written upon the same day as the lady's letter.
The sums drawn by these orders amounted in all to four thousand two
hundred rubles. But how should a tutor or secretary be in
possession of his employer's money? Still, this might be accounted
for; it would imply great trust on the part of the latter, but no
more than one man frequently reposes in another. Yet, if it were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: regime, and the sight of a woman, a pretty woman, stirs me to the
tips of my toes. There!
"And then we are all very much alike in France; we remain
cavaliers, cavaliers of love and fortune, since God has been
abolished, whose bodyguard we really were. But nobody will ever
get the woman out of our hearts; there she is, and there she will
remain; we love her, and shall continue to love her, and to
commit all kinds of frolics on her account, so long as there is a
France on the map of Europe. And even if France were to be wiped
off the map, there would always be Frenchmen left.
"When I am in the presence of a woman, of a pretty woman, I feel
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