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Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

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Regret is a sign that the action is one that goes 'against the grain of the agent.'.

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Regret is an experience of felt-reason or reasoned emotion. one thing all regretted decisions have in common is that the person had an element of control.

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Regret is cognitively laden to an unusual degree... it requires us to think in a practical way about a decision that we made while also being.

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Regret is a denial of the soul, for to regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development, to deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life.

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Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. It lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

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