Streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent - T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The burnt out ends of smoky days - T.S. Eliot, Preludes

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? - T.S. Eliot. Gerontion

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting - Milan Kundera, The book of laughter and forgetting

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of habit - Tagore, Gitanjali