Renato

“To be here or somewhere else, to live or not to live, to look out through a broken window or not to look.”
― Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night

“To look good in defeat is the ultimate a person can want.”
― Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night

“We lived a decent and beautiful life," the old man said. "Maybe it's our innocence that irritates those who hate us so much and makes them kill us and burn us and hang us. It was a magnificent life because we lived in peace with ourselves. But we were always in the minority.”
― Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night

“Hunger and cold were like two walls with no room for anything else in between but loneliness, in which a man is a stranger even to himself.”
― Arnošt Lustig, Diamonds of the Night