Frases de Peter Handke

“Lo principal: … no dejarme definir por la historia, no considerarla una excusa —aborrecerla en aquellos que ocultan su insignificancia personal tras ella— y, sin embargo, conocerla para comprender a las personas y, sobre todo, para calarlas (mi odio a la historia como refugio para el ninguneo) "”

“Y al fin:
feliz aquel que tiene sus lugares de duración;
ya no será, aunque se haya trasladado para siempre a un país
extraño,
sin perspectivas de volver a su mundo,
nadie a quien han expulsado de su patria.”

“Si una nación pierde a sus narradores, pierde su infancia.”

“Tenso, nervioso y cercano a la locura antes de escribir, y cuando leo lo que he escrito, se ve muy tranquilo.”

“Ya no era superficial, había dejado de pensar.”

“Proud of my near-madness, as if I had attained a goal.”

“A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s past, to stop feeling that one’s present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.”

“The main thing:… not to let myself be defined by history, not to take it as an excuse—despise it in those who hide their personal insignificance behind it—and yet know it, in order to understand people and above all to see through them”

“When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.”

“Tense, unnerved, and close to madness before writing—and when I read what I’ve written it looks so calm.”

“My way of thinking is often so wrong, so untenable, because I think as if I were talking to someone else.”

“I was no longer superficial — I had stopped thinking.”

“I was angry at her for not being what I wanted.”