Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist.
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.