Rebuttals never alter desire.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.