Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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