A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s… - Peter Handke

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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.

Peter Handke

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Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942, in Griffen, Austria) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.

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

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 (my hatred of history as a refuge for be-nothings).

Ich hörte auf, oberflächlich zu sein — ich dachte nichts mehr

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. - Peter Handke

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