"There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been."
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Postscript, p. 508.
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A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Byatt DBE (24 August 1936 β 16 November 2023) was an English novelist, critic and academic. She was usually known as A. S. Byatt.
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