On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

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

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.