A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country
Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
Cracks make caves collapse.
And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.