The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Boudjedra dismisses arguments such as Daoud's as " trafficked history" – the product of an inferiority complex in a people still struggling to emerge from the psychological bonds of colonisation.
Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own'?