Painterly cream and blue ropes tied together in a loose knot against slate blue with golden specks.

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La joie (Joy) 1929

Georges Bernanos

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker describes a discovery that also feels like something always known. Human connection is then compared with an inescapable relationship to God. That paradox gives the realization its force: an old belief becomes newly vivid, making separation from others seem impossible within this perspective.

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