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acknowledgetheabsurd · 22 hours
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What I say to you is very serious and long meditated: the link which binds me to you is from now on that of life itself. If it is cut, it is agony and madness. I underline this to you and I write to you very coldly, with the certainty of those who have experienced what they say. Do this for me, will you? Put this letter aside and if one day you are tempted to reject me, read it again. It will tell you the truth that I discovered with fear one day: that, in spite of what I thought I was and in spite of all that I am apparently fulfilled with, I am nothing without you - only a desperate and now barren selfishness. You are life and what binds me to it. I owe you a new being in me, or rather the one I really was and which had never been born.
Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 10, 1950 [#183]
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daweyt · 1 month
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Forugh Farrokhzad, from a letter to Ebrahim Golestan featured in “Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad,” tr. by Sholeh Wolpé.
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prosedumonde · 2 months
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Depuis hier soir, je songe à vous, éperdument. Un désir insensé de vous revoir, de vous revoir tout de suite, là, devant moi, est entré soudain dans mon coeur. Et je voudrais passer la mer, franchir les montagnes, traverser les villes, rien que pour poser ma main sur votre épaule, pour respirer le parfum de vos cheveux.  Ne le sentez-vous pas, autour de vous, rôder, ce désir, ce désir venu de moi qui vous cherche, ce désir qui vous implore dans le silence de la nuit ? 
Lettre de Maupassant à Hermine Lecomte de Noüy (19 décembre 1887) in Maupassant, Frédéric Martinez
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honourablejester · 1 year
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A random collection of messages your D&D character might receive to spur them on the path to adventure:
You were right! By gods, you were right. We found it, right where you said it would be. It’s real, and it’s ours. We break through tomorrow. The next time you hear from me, it’ll be a brand new world.
We regret to inform you that your [parent/sibling/partner/spouse/underling] was found dead this morning. All indications are that their passing was peaceful. Per local regulation, they have been buried in the local graveyard, and their belongings will be kept at the town hall for one month before being redistributed. Should you wish to collect them or make alternate arrangements for their remains, please contact the town council within the above stated time frame.
They know about the money. I’m on the next boat out. It was a good run, but all good things come to an end, eh? Now’s a good time for a new name and a new city, mate. Best of luck.
Hey, cousin. Don’t know if you’ve heard yet, they should be sending you the official letter any day now, but the old man did it. You’re out. Disinherited, disowned, out of the will. The whole shebang. And not before time. Good luck on pauper street.
Your cover’s blown. All our covers are blown. They’re closing in on all of us. Get out. Just get out. Don’t bother looking. Just run.
I don’t know who might be reading this. I don’t know if it’ll even get out. But whoever it is, you’ve got to help me. Please, you’ve got to help me. We’re all trapped in here. The old castle, in the Redwood. Please, you have to come. They’re not going to let us go.
I regret to inform you that your proposal has been rejected. Your repeated proposals have been rejected. It is the opinion of this body that your campaign has passed the threshold to harassment, and we will no longer be accepting any proposals from you or your intermediaries. Funding for this kind of project is simply not within our purview or, to be blunt, our morals.
It’s been years, eh? And much as I hate to break this lovely silence between us, things have changed. You owe me, old friend, and I’m afraid I’m going to have to call that favour in.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to write to you again. They’re closing the borders now, even to couriers. It’s spreading too fast. I don’t … Look. Stay safe, all right? Stay out there. One of us has to stay pretty, right?
Hey, so. You know how you told me that becoming a troubadour was a fool’s errand, and stupidly unsafe, and only going to get me into trouble? Well, um. Want to come to North Moor and say ‘I told you so’? Please?
Hah! You crackpot old fool! You told me I was wrong! Well, I wasn’t, and now you’re all going to see! It’s possible! I told you it was possible! And I’ve only blown up one mountain so far! So there!
Darling. I know I told you I’d wait for you. I’m sure you think I’m the most faithless lover the world has ever seen. But it’s been six years and, well. Someone came. Someone beautiful. Someone loving and wonderful and kind. I’ve enclosed the ring. I’m … I’m sure you’ll find someone else to give it to.
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xxrrisxx · 15 days
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But the heart sometimes blindly seeks suffering.
Albert Camus
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archivesdamour · 7 months
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Ce que vous savez peut être mal c’est à quel point vous êtes un besoin pour ceux qui vous aiment, et qui sans vous , ne vaudraient plus grand chose. Je parle d’abord pour moi qui ne me suis jamais résigné à voir la vie perdre de son sens, et de son sang. A vrai dire, c’est le seul visage que j’aie jamais connu à la souffrance. On parle de la douleur de vivre. Mais ce n’est pas vrai, c’est la douleur de ne pas vivre, qu’il faut dire. Et comment vivre dans ce monde d’ombres ? Sans vous, sans deux, trois êtres que je respecte et chéris, une épaisseur manquerait définitivement aux choses. Peut-être ne vous ai-je pas assez dit cela, mais ce n’est pas au moment où je vous sens un peu désemparé que je veux manquer à vous le dire. Il y a si peu d’occasions d’amitié vraie aujourd’hui que les hommes en sont devenus trop pudiques, parfois.
Albert Camus à René Char
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camus-cat-cigarette · 17 days
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Camus: "I have never felt more full of strength and life. The enormous joy that fills me would raise the world..."
Casarès: " All my life will fall short to love you...'
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"If Albert was a Don Juan, Maria was a Don Juana." ~ Oliver Todd
"Love that is not madness is not love." ~ Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Duo CamCasa: Costume Rehearsal at the Angers Festival; Play "Devotion to the Cross" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca; dramaturgy and direction: AlbertCamus; photographer: Emile Muller, 1953
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garadinervi · 5 months
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Valentina Piva, Rodari: Filastrocche in cielo e in terra, «Doppiozero», Speciale «Rodari 100», September 28, 2020
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oviri7 · 1 year
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«Tu es entrée, par hasard, dans une vie dont je n'étais pas fier, et de ce jour-là quelque chose a commencé de changer. J'ai mieux respiré, j'ai détesté moins de choses, j’ai admiré librement ce qui méritait de l'être. Avant toi, hors de toi, je n'adhérais à rien. Cette force, dont tu te moquais quelquetois, n'a jamais été qu'une force solitaire, une force de refus. Avec toi, j'ai accepté plus de choses. J'ai appris à vivre. C'est pour cela sans doute qu'il s'est toujours mêlé à mon amour une gratitude immense.»
Albert Camus, Maria Casarès - Correspondance (1944-1959)
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returntomytilene · 1 month
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Carte postale de Renée Vivien à Kérimé Turkhan Pacha, septembre 1904
« Le recto de la carte représente une vue de Venise, portant ces mots : "My thoughts go out towards you R.V.". Au verso, adresse autographe "Mrs. Katy Hope, Poste restante française, Constantinople, Turquie". . . . [Vivien] adressait ses courriers à "sa Sultane" sous les pseudonymes "Katy Hope, Poste restante, Constantinople", ou encore "Miss Eldridge" ou "Miss [Woodthrope]". Ces prête-noms permettaient très probablement de ne pas attirer l'attention sur leur amour. »
Une note sur le nom Woodthrope : Un éminent auteur classique, William Woodthrope Tarn, est né en 1869. Peut-être était-il lié de parenté à Vivien d'une manière ou d'une autre ?
Traces Ecrites, Paris, France
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acknowledgetheabsurd · 3 months
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Ah! I'm suffocating from this longing I have for you.
Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 6, 1950 [#174]
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daweyt · 2 months
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Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vanessa Bell, 18 June 1919, from “The Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume II: 1912-1922.”
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mimiselivre · 1 year
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" Je t'aime au-delà de ce qu'il est possible d'imaginer ; que tu es persuadée que tous mes instants te sont consacrés ; que jamais il ne se passe une heure sans penser à toi ; que jamais il ne m'est venu dans l'idée de penser à une autre femme ; qu'elles sont toutes, à mes yeux, sans grâce, sans beauté et sans esprit ; que toi, toute entière telle que je te vois, telle que tu es, pourrais me plaire et absorber toutes les facultés de mon âme ; que tu en as touché toute l'étendue ; que mon cœur n'a point de replis où tu ne règnes, point de pensées qui ne te soient subordonnées ; que mes forces , mes bras, mon esprit sont tout à toi ; que mon âme est dans ton corps, et que le jour où tu aurais changé ou où tu cesserais de vivre serait celui de ma mort; que la nature, la terre n'est belle à mes yeux que parce que tu l'habite."
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prosedumonde · 2 months
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Je ne pense comme personne je ne sens comme personne, je ne raisonne comme personne et je reste persuadé de l’éternelle vérité de cette phrase de mon maître, le seul être que j’ai aimé d’une affection absolue et qui sera sans fin, bien que lui soit mort, je parle de Gustave Flaubert : « Sale invention que la vie décidément. Nous sommes tous dans un désert. […]
Lettre de Maupassant, in Maupassant, Frédéric Martinez
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ksenijagutovic · 2 years
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My thoughts are the color of your hair. Monday and a few days thereafter, they will be the color of your eyes.” And later: “I write your name in the night, Maria, dear.”
Albert Camus to Maria Casarés
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wizard-irl · 1 year
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How to Make Your Own Correspondences
Look at what is meaningful to you. What things have been personally important to you? An example of this is your favourite colour. If your favourite colour is blue, what about the colour appeals to you? Is it because it makes you think of the sky, or water, or a feeling of peace? Did your parents paint your front door a certain colour? What colour was your favourite toy? Did someone you hate love a certain colour? What about someone you love? What do you associate with them? Anything meaningful can count if you want it to count. 
Word associations. Take a look at what I associated with blue in the first bullet point. What does the sky or water or peace mean to you? Do you think of clouds or stars first when you think of the sky? Do you think of the ocean or a river when you think of water? What kind of peace does blue make you think of? And then keep chaining. If blue = water = river, then river can mean movement, gradual change, swiftness, etc. if blue = sky = stars, then blue can be a divination colour (stars being associated with astrology). If blue = peace, and if peace = calmness when being alone, then blue can also represent self-care or vitality (because you might be an introvert who needs to recharge their social batteries every so often by being alone). If you get stuck, this site can give you associations as prompts.
Look at traditional correspondences, ask why, and assess if they’re accurate for you. What in the author’s culture would cause them to think that this would connect to this? If blue is said to be a truthful colour, you could look to the Bible to see that blue = sky = God = truth (Exodus 24:10, John 3:33). If blue is said to be a calming colour, you can look to science to see that in some studies, it has been shown that blue = lower heart rate = calm (Al-Ayash et al, 2015). Then, by understanding, word associate. If blue = God = truth, then if red is the opposite of blue, then red = opposition to God/Satan = lies. Again, the same research showed that redder colours affect the heart more, so red is also opposing to blue in that it’s less calming, more active. Do you not like the Christian god? Then blue could be a colour of lies instead of red, which takes on blue’s former truthful meaning. If blue = God ≠ truth, then blue ≠ truth if such an association makes you uncomfortable.
Combinations. If correspondences can be combined, what do they combine into? Red + blue = purple. Is purple a paradoxical colour, of lies and truth? Then perhaps purple is a colour of confusion. Perhaps purple is weaker than red or blue due them cancelling each other out. Or, purple can represent harmony or balance of opposing forces. Or continuing with my Christian example, purple could represent the Earth/material world, since between heaven and hell are people living on Earth. Then, continuing from there, purple, as it associates with kings due to the expense of purple dyes before the invention of synthetics (LiveScience), can then represent worldly power (as kings rule the material world rather than the spiritual), as opposed to a more spiritual/godly power.
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