When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

When all ways are lost the way is clear.

*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.

. . . people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

Abandon every hope, all you who enter.

Eternity for bubbles proves at last a senseless bargain.

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.