All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.