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

Il y a toujours une philosophie pour le manque de courage.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. And in a good novel, the whole of the philosophy has passed into the images. But if once the philosophy overflows the characters and action, and therefore looks like a label stuck on the work, the plot loses its authenticity and the novel its life. Nevertheless, a work that is to last cannot dispense with profound ideas. And this secret fusion between experiences and ideas, between life and reflection on the meaning of life, is what makes the great novelist.

Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. "No artist tolerates reality," says Nietzsche.