If, as would sometimes happen, she had the appearance of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon myself altogether to the sole quest of her, like people who set out on a journey to see with their own eyes some city that they have always longed to visit, and imagine that they can taste in reality what has charmed their fancy.
Baldin hark, inoiz hala gertatu ohi zen-eta, neure bizitzan barrena benetan ezagutua nuèn emakumeren baten hazpegiak bazituen, helburu bakar bati lotuko nintzaion deliberatuki: hura berraurkitzeari, hala nola egiten baitute beren joranezko hiri bat beren begiez ikustearren bidaiari ekin eta ametsaren xarma egiatasunean zinez dasta daitekeela uste ohi dutenek.