Reason cannot break out of its own loop.
Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
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.