#maria casares

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to Maria Casarès written in August 1948

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Should we keep silent about what is in our hearts or tell each other? I've always played the coward, out of respect for you. I've always pretended that I could live with anything, as if I were really made to be the plaything of men and circumstances, as if I did not have a firm heart within me which, faithful and free in its right, beats for that which is highest, you, my beloved!

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 1950? [#222]

[oldwinesoul]

I have enough love to fill your silence.

// Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares written in February 1950

[slayerbuffy]

Les Dames du bois de Boulogne 1945 | dir. Robert Bresson

[camus-cat-cigarette]

"[...] you are the only being in the world to whom I can turn to calm myself."

Maria Casarès to Albert Camus ☆– Correspondance; August 16th 1949 [#83]

[quote credit: @acknowledgetheabsurd ]

[depraved-raven]

“i love you without regrets and without reservations, with a great clear impulse that fills me up completely. i love you as i feel myself living, at times, on the summits of the world, and i wait for you with an obstinacy as long as ten lives, a tenderness that will not be exhausted, the great and luminous desire that i have for you, the terrible thirst that i have for your heart. i embrace you, i hold you against me.”

— albert camus to maria casarès, correspondance, [july 1], 1949 [#66]

[did-joan-of-arc-fall-in-love]

i believe in love because albert camus & maria casarès exchanged 1200 pages worth of letters

[hiyutekivigil]

“Perhaps it was necessary that I had to bang my head against life in order to return with an insatiable thirst for you and for meaning.” María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, December 1944

[citasconcafe]

“Pero el amor que te tengo está lleno de gritos. Es mi vida, y fuera de él no soy sino una alma muerta. Sostenme, espéranos, vela por nosotros”.

Jueves, 14 de julio de 1949.

Albert Camus a María Casares, Correspondencia.

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares written in February 1950

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Rest especially. Recover during the day. Think of me: you are the dearest thing to me in the world and, kept far from you, I tremble every time I imagine you in this moment.

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 21, 1950 [#206]

[namedvesta]

“I speak to you with my whole soul at the edge of my lips.”

Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, from Correspondence, 1949.

[cinematicjourney]

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) | dir. Robert Bresson

[papillon-de-mai]

“Desire is sustained through fragments, concentrated moments spent together mythologized during those apart.”

— Albert Camus, from “The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares.”

[camus-cat-cigarette]

"When you loved someone, you always love him."

confided Maria Casarès long after Albert Camus' death.

°~ quote credit: albertcamusofficial | instagram, January 14th 2024

°~photo credit: Albert Camus and Maria Casares during the rehearsal at the Angers Festival by Emile Muller 1953

[depraved-raven]

“i love you and i discover it little by little, minute by minute, in a long wonder. you can't know; like a very young girl. all in love. nothing is more important between you and me; nothing or no one in the world and if you live and if i live we will be us forever, in spite of time and distance, and ideas and other people, and good and bad health.”

— maria casarès to albert camus, correspondance, december 26, 1948 [#43]