Love Letters | Maria Casares & Albert Camus, 1944-1959

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Love Letters | Maria Casares & Albert Camus, 1944-1959
Maria Casares and Albert Camus, 1948
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“We met, we recognised each other, we abandoned ourselves one to the other. We have lived a love of burning, pure crystal. Do you realise what happiness we have, and what has been given to us?”
María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, June, 1950
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“Tied to one another by the bonds of the earth, by intelligence, heart and flesh, nothing,
I know, can surprise or separate us.”
Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, February 1950
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“Whatever may come, you are forever in all my life.”

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus,  January 1959

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Maria Casares and Albert Camus, 1948                                 Maria Casares and Albert Camus
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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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“I hold you like the first time. I love your heart and all that you are.
When I think of us it seems absurd to not believe in eternity.”

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, March 1952.

“I have enough love to fill your silence .”

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, 27 février 1950
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“I found with you a life force I’d thought I lost.”

Albert Camus to María Casares, August 1951.

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Maria Casares and Albert Camus

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“I kiss my valentine and join the few flowers we have to offer Valentine’s day, to the
one we love. You are the one I love, in front of every spring, and I kiss you deeply,
with all my love.
A.”
 Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, February 1950.

“The rest of today was bleak,outside of us..”

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, 1951

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“You are the only being that has given me tears.”

Albert Camus to María Casares, August 1951
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Albert Camus and Maria Casares

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Albert Camus to Maria Casarès
    one o’clock [morning] [june 1944]

Ma petite Maria,

I just came back home, I don’t want to sleep at all, and I have such a great desire to have you close
to me that I have to sit at my table to talk to you the only way I can. I didn’t dare say to Marcel
[Herrand] that I didn’t want to go drink his champagne. And you were with so much people !
But after a half hour, I had enough, I only needed you. I loved you so much, Maria, this whole
night, seeing you, hearing your voice that became for me irreplaceable while on my way up to
Marcel, I found a piece of text for the play. I can’t read it anymore without hearing you, it’s my
way to be happy with you.

I try to picture what you do, and I ask myself with wonder why you’re not here. I tell myself that what would be in the rule, in the only rule that I know, which is that of passion and life, it’s that you come back home tomorrow and that we finish together an evening that we would have started together. But I also know that this is vain and there is everything else.

But at least don’t forget me when you leave me. Don’t forget either what I told you extensively at my place, one day, before everything rushes. That day I told you with the deepest part of my heart and I would like, I would like so much that we be to each other like I told you we should be. Don’t leave me, I can’t phantom anything worse than losing you. What would I do now without that face where everything shakes me, this voice and also this body pressed against me ?

Besides it’s not what I wanted to tell you today. But only your presence here, the need I have of you, my thought of this evening. Goodnight, my dear. I hope that tomorrow will come quickly and all the other days where you will be more mine than this cursed play. I kiss you with all my strength.

AC

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Albert Camus & Maria Casares

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