| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: "Oh, my Juana!" said Montefiore, again pressing her in his arms. "I
should be a monster indeed if I deceived you. I will love you
forever."
Juana was thoughtful. Montefiore, reflecting that in this first
interview he ought to venture upon nothing that might frighten a young
girl so ignorantly pure, so imprudent by virtue rather than from
desire, postponed all further action to the future, relying on his
beauty, of which he knew the power, and on this innocent ring-
marriage, the hymen of the heart, the lightest, yet the strongest of
all ceremonies. For the rest of that night, and throughout the next
day, Juana's imagination was the accomplice of her passion.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: extremities, and from the extremities to the centre again. Nature was
one and homogeneous. In the most seemingly trivial, as in the most
stupendous work, everything obeyed that law; each created object
reproduced in little an exact image of that nature--the sap in the
plant, the blood in man, the orbits of the planets. He piled proof on
proof, always completing his idea by a picture musical with poetry.
And he boldly anticipated every objection. He thundered forth an
eloquent challenge to the monumental works of science and human
excrescences of knowledge, such as those which societies use the
elements of the earthly globe to produce. He asked whether our wars,
our disasters, our depravity could hinder the great movement given by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: let them go.
MAR 11:7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on
him; and he sat upon him.
MAR 11:8 And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down
branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
MAR 11:9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried,
saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
MAR 11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in
the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
MAR 11:11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and
when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was
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