If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.