It wasn't a battle at all. It was a cat playing with her food.
Madness string 2457
You might be right, you might be wrong, but you have to choose, knowing that the rightness or wrongness might never be clear or even that you are deciding between two sorts of wrong, that there is no right anywhere.
Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.