The woman who looks as if she has been suffering for three years from constipation: “Those Arabs, they mask their women’s faces. Ah! They are not yet civilized!” Little by little she reveals to us her ideal of civilization: a husband who makes 1200 francs a month, a two-room apartment with kitchen and maids’ rooms, movies on Sunday, and for the rest of the week rooms furnished by the Galeries Barbès.

—Albert Camus, Carnets (1940)