Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

“If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?”

“We proceed in this society of ours on the possibly valid but untrue assumption …”

“And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality t…”

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting…”