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“All my hope, all my courage comes finally from what I expect as a total reunion, love, emotion, joy, and absolute freedom between us, bodies and soul, transparency and naturalness. And I do not wait for it as a utopia. I wait for it because I am sure of it. And it is not so far, no, it is not so far. Because listen carefully: yesterday in the mountain I saw the first flowers of the almond tree. The tree was still black. But at the ends of the branches a dozen or so frail and soft flowers were already rustling in the wind. You understand, my love, Maria dear! It was the extreme point of the extreme beginning of spring. And a great impulse came to my eyes and heart, which I can call no more than an impulse of adoration. I made a vow. I looked for a long time at the crying petals. And I went home, my heart full of love. Goodbye, my beautiful and wonderful love. I kiss my Valentine and give her the few flowers that we should give on Valentine’s Day to the one that we love. You are the one I love, before every spring, and I kiss you deeply, with all my love.”

— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 12, 1950 [#187]

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"Brutal physical desire is easy. But desire, along with tenderness, takes time. You have to cross the whole land of love before you find the flame of desire. Is that why it's always so hard to desire what you love?"

Albert Camus: Notebook 1942

📷 Albert Camus with his wife Francine Faure ☆~ Collection of Catherine and Jean Camus ~☆ quote credit: albertcamusofficial instagram

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Albert Camus and Francine Faure with the twins.

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“You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.” ― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

Painting: "Sunlight" by Frank Weston Benson

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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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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus

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'Together once more! But never like tonight, and in spite of all the obstacles, I overflowed with gratitude, pride and tenderness. And when it's over in the hour of fatigue, your face that I cherish... To live at last! And life has no other face than yours. I'm holding your hand, very tightly, all this time.'

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, December 17th 1949 (#107)

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quote credit: @acknowledgetheabsurd •~ photo credit: Emile Muller 1953

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“Ah my darling, my double, my adored love, I may be changeable, foggy, capricious, tormented and stormy like the ocean, but you, my lightning, you are exhausting, as well as the Mediterranean.”

— Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, February 9, 1950 [#180]

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"All that was left was this anguished heart, eager to live, rebelling against the deadly order of the world that had been with him for forty years, and still struggling against the wall that separated him from the secret of all life, wanting to go farther, to go beyond, and to discover, discover before dying, discover at last in order to be, just once to be, for a single second, but forever."

Albert Camus, The First Man

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“There is something that cannot resign itself to your absence, it is my poor little body that stretches out in vain towards you, that writhes, that whimpers and cries after you, my sad little body that stunts from day to day and that asks unceasingly to blossom, to warm up, to beat, to quiver. Oh my beautiful, my dear love! Oh burning! O my sweet pain! O my life! Here I am filled with shivers, mysterious undulations, delicate and secret sounds. You wanted my letter to bring you a little warmth! It has awakened in me again all that dark and intimate zone that I love so much to feel just in my center, in my middle, that vibrating zone that moves me as much as the presence of a child in my belly, or even more, knowing it better. She has touched that tiny point in me, but which you know and love, and I tremble all over. Happy, oh yes, happy. Happy and overflowing with love, desire and tenderness. I am waiting for you every day. I run too; I run unceasingly towards you. The coast is coming to an end, my darling. Soon the sight of the sea, and then the beach and the waves.”

— Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, February 10, 1950 [#182]

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“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.” ― Albert Camus, The Stranger

Painting by Rinat Voligamsi

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Albert Camus (1913-1960), French dramatist, and Jacques Hébertot  (1886-1970), French theatre manager, attending a rehearsal of  "Caligula". Paris, Théâtre Hébertot, 1950.

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'No, Caligula is not dead. He is here, and there. He is in each and every one of you. If you had the power, if you had the heart, if you loved life, you would see him, this monster or this angel that you carry within you (...) Farewell, I return to the history where those who fear to love too much have kept me locked up for so long.'

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1948; January 1937 ☆ via albertcamusofficial ig

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“I’m working a lot. I want to live for that and it is the essential thing. Isn’t it admirable, Jean, that life is a thing so passionate and so sorrowful?”

— Albert Camus, Letter to Jean de Maisonseuil (quote taken from Camus, A Romance by Elizabeth Hawes)

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'What a painting requires is a long, silent understanding, almost a love affair.'

~ quote from Albert Camus on painting in the Alger-Student Newspaper ☆ credit: albertcamusofficial instagram

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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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Maria Casarès showing her costume to Albert Camus during a rehearsal (circa 1950)

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