As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.