The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.
Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.
The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.