An idea from Either/Or

In a mock lecture he runs every choice through the same machine. If you wed, “you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it.” Laughing at the world and weeping over it end the same way, so he never starts down any road.

From Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard

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