Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

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

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.