In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
In order to exist, man must rebel.
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!