T.s.

After such knowledge,  what forgiveness?  Think now
History has made many cunning passages, contrived corridors 
And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,
Guides us by vanities. Think now
She gives when our attention is distracted
And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late
What's not believed in, or is still believed. 

T.S. Eliot