Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, toward…

T. S. Eliot
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. ✨ Four Quartets Burnt Norton pt. 1 (1936)
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. ✨ Four Quartets Burnt Norton pt. 1 (1936)

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