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“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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A. S. Byatt livre Possession

Postscript, Page 508.
Possession (1990)

“Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.”

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A. S. Byatt livre Possession

Page 149.
Possession (1990)

“And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.”

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A. S. Byatt livre Possession

Page 223; the poet being Robert Browning in Epilogue in his collection of poems Dramatis Personae.
Possession (1990)

“I shall from time to time write a small Clue — so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.”

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A. S. Byatt livre Possession

Page 178.
Possession (1990)

“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”

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A. S. Byatt livre Possession

Source: Possession