Albert Camus, from a letter to Maria Casarès written in August 1948
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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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I thirst for you. Don't walk away from me. Tell me everything, even if you have to hurt me a little. No one in the world will love anything you do as much as I do. Tell me about the you l love, the one who's a little shivery. Let yourself go. Don't force yourself on me, just because you don't want to worry or help me. I finally understand why I was born. I love you.
— Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, from “Correspondance.”
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“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]
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“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
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Everything is burning, my soul, body, outside, inside, heart, flesh. Do you understand? Do you really understand?
~Maria Casares
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“My darling, there are no walls or secret gardens in me for you. You have the keys to all the doors.”
— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, August 12, 1948
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"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
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“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.”
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Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares written in February 1950
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I want you everywhere, all of you, and I will always want you. Yes, always, and don’t talk to me about “if…” or “maybe…” or “as long as…”. I want you, I know, it is a need and I will put all my heart, all my soul, all my will and all my cruelty even, if it is necessary to have you.
Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, Christmas, 1948 [#43]
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— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, July 17, 1949 / Romeo & Juliet by Karl Friedrich von Müller.
[Text ID: I'm waiting for you, I'm waiting for the evening calm, I'm waiting for our time, the oblique light, this pause between day and night. Peace will come, surely. But I can imagine no other peace than that of our two bodies bound together, of our gaze given over to each other - I have no other homeland but you.]
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“i thirst for you. don't walk away from me. tell me everything, even if you have to hurt me a little. no one in the world will love anything you do as much as i do. tell me about the you i love, the one who's a little shivery. let yourself go. don't force yourself on me, just because you don't want to worry or help me. when you strip in front of me, i finally understand why i was born. i love you.”
— maria casarès to albert camus, correspondance, january 14-15, 1950
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