Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.
Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.
Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.