Relations with the Divinity

"Aujourd'hui quand on me parle de Lui, je dis avec l'amusement sans regret d'un vieux beau qui rencontre une ancienne belle: 'Il y a cinquante ans, sans ce malentendu, sans cette meprise, sans l'accident qui nous separa, il aurait pu avoir quelque chose entre nous.'"

Sartre, Les Mots
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(Clumsy translation across the fold.)

"When someone speaks of Him today, I say with the bemusement of an old lover who crosses an old love: 'Fifty years ago, had it not been for that misunderstanding, that disagreement, that incident that separated us, there could have been something between us."