He went farther; agonised by the reflection, at the moment when it passed by him, so near and yet so infinitely remote, that, while it was addressed to their ears, it knew them not, he would regret, almost, that it had a meaning of its own, an intrinsic and unalterable beauty, foreign to themselves, just as in the jewels given to us, or even in the letters written to us by a woman with whom we are in love, we find fault with the 'water' of a stone, or with the words of a sentence because they are not fashioned exclusively from the spirit of a fleeting intimacy and of a 'lass unparalleled.'
Eta are, perpaus hura berarengandik hain hurbil baina era berean hain infinituki urrun igarotzen sumatzen zuenean, sufritu egiten zuen Swannek, zera pentsatze hutsarekin, musika hark, alegia, beraiengana zuzendua izan arren, ez zituela inondik inora eurak ezagutzen, eta ia deitoratu ere bai pasarte hark bere baitan esangura bat eduki ahal izatea, bere baitako edertasun berezko eta finko bat, entzuleontzat arrotz zirauena, hala nola gertatzen zaigun oparitan jasotzen ditugun bitxiekin, edo are emakume maitatu batek idazten dizkigun gutunekin ere, harribitxiaren ur gardena, eta hizkuntzaren hitzak berak ere, gorrotatzeraino iristen baikara, ez daudelako gure maitemintze iragankor horren eta izaki jakin horren esentzia hutsez eginak.