| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: Perhaps that was because she frequented a vaster mansion
than any of them, the open hills. Like the summer condition
of the place around her, she was an embodiment of the
phrase "a populous solitude"--apparently so listless,
void, and quiet, she was really busy and full.
To be loved to madness--such was her great desire.
Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away
the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long
for the abstraction called passionate love more than for
any particular lover.
She could show a most reproachful look at times, but it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: But still, oh so still
While the winds come and go,
With no more fear of the hard frost
Or the bright burden of snow;
And heedless, heedless
If anyone pass and see
On the white page of the sky
Its thin black tracery.
At Midnight
Now at last I have come to see what life is,
Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and if you do it as such things are rightly done, and at
the time such things are rightly done, no one will interfere.
I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London,
and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland and lock up
his house, some burglar come and broke window at back and got in.
Then he went and made open the shutters in front and walk out
and in through the door, before the very eyes of the police.
Then he have an auction in that house, and advertise it,
and put up big notice. And when the day come he sell off by a
great auctioneer all the goods of that other man who own them.
Then he go to a builder, and he sell him that house, making an agreement
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