“And we forget because we must and not because we will.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
“But each day brings its petty dust
Our soon-chok’d souls to fill,
And we forget because we must,
And not because we will.”
"Absence" (1857), st. 3
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