| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: where this conversation passed, by the arrival of the very
persons of whom they had been speaking; Mr. Bingley and his
sisters came to give their personal invitation for the
long-expected ball at Netherfield, which was fixed for the
following Tuesday. The two ladies were delighted to see their
dear friend again, called it an age since they had met, and
repeatedly asked what she had been doing with herself since
their separation. To the rest of the family they paid little
attention; avoiding Mrs. Bennet as much as possible, saying not
much to Elizabeth, and nothing at all to the others. They were
soon gone again, rising from their seats with an activity which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Ajuda-Pinto, Marquis Miguel d'
Father Goriot
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Beatrix
Arthez, Daniel d'
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Letters of Two Brides
The Member for Arcis
Bianchon, Horace
Father Goriot
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: who made things, above all, solidly and substantially, and seeing
in that his chief object, gave to length of life peculiar
significance, had no thought of death, and probably hardly
believed in its possibility; I, when I built my bridges of iron
and stone which would last a thousand years, could not keep from
me the thought, "It's not for long . . . .it's no use." If in
time Butyga's cupboard and my bridge should come under the notice
of some sensible historian of art, he would say: "These were two
men remarkable in their own way: Butyga loved his
fellow-creatures and would not admit the thought that they might
die and be annihilated, and so when he made his furniture he had
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