Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

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

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

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.