“I was completely absorbed as to what would happen because anything was possible.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.”
Source: Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy
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