Many of the choices we agonize over are options that never really existed.

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

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• The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways, I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
• Man is the cruelest animal.
• A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
• The face you see in the mirror is not your face; it is flipped left to right. In photos you look wrong to yourself because you are used to the mirror. So which one is your real face? Have you never actually seen yourself correctly, and can only other people see you?