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Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Feels
Later
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Single
Disquieting
Decision
Murdered
Choices
Settling
Though
Concrete
Times
Equally
Feel
Aspect

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