What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Cormac McCarthy
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In the quote, “what you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not” it means that if you remember the past as you want to remember, instead of how it really was, it is as if you never existed.

Source: The Road

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