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.

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.

当你从众多方法中选择一种时，所有你不选择的方法都像蜡烛一样熄灭了，仿佛它们从未存在过。

-- Philip Pullman 菲利普·普尔曼