One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.