| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: me. And now about this woman, this Mrs. Cheveley. How can I defend
myself against her? You knew her before, Arthur, apparently.
LORD GORING. Yes.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Did you know her well?
LORD GORING. [Arranging his necktie.] So little that I got engaged
to be married to her once, when I was staying at the Tenbys'. The
affair lasted for three days . . . nearly.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Why was it broken off?
LORD GORING. [Airily.] Oh, I forget. At least, it makes no matter.
By the way, have you tried her with money? She used to be
confoundedly fond of money.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: get so weary of one."
Sheldon watched her to the foot of the steps, where she turned and
called back, -
"My! I can't tell you how good it is to be home again."
And as his gaze continued to follow her across the compound to the
tiny grass house, the realization came to him crushingly that
Berande and that little grass house was the only place in the world
she could call "home."
"And Burnett said, 'Well, I'll be damned--I beg your pardon, Miss
Lackland, but you have wantonly broken the recruiting laws and you
know it,'" Captain Munster narrated, as they sat over their whisky,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: 26.
O my brethren! With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole human
future? Is it not with the good and just?--
--As those who say and feel in their hearts: "We already know what is good
and just, we possess it also; woe to those who still seek thereafter!
And whatever harm the wicked may do, the harm of the good is the harmfulest
harm!
And whatever harm the world-maligners may do, the harm of the good is the
harmfulest harm!
O my brethren, into the hearts of the good and just looked some one once on
a time, who said: "They are the Pharisees." But people did not understand
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
