And yet, because there is an element of individuality in places, when I am seized with a desire to see again the 'Guermantes way,' it would not be satisfied were I led to the banks of a river in which were lilies as fair, or even fairer than those in the Vivonne, any more than on my return home in the evening, at the hour when there awakened in me that anguish which, later on in life, transfers itself to the passion of love, and may even become its inseparable companion, I should have wished for any strange mother to come in and say good night to me, though she were far more beautiful and more intelligent than my own.
Eta, hala eta guztiz ere, leku bakoitzean beti baitago halako banakotasun beste inon ez bezalako bat, Guermantes aldea berrikusteko gogoa nitaz jabetzen denean, ezin izango nuke, noski, berau ase, Vivonnen bezain nenufar ederrak, edo are ederragoak, lituzkeen beste ibaiertz batera joanik, hala nola ez nukeen inola ere desio izango, arratsean, etxerakoan-nigan larritasun hura iratzartzen zenean, gerora amodiora igaro eta hainbatetan beronengandik betirako bereizi ezina ere bihur daitekeena-, ama ederrago eta adimentsuago bat etor zekidan gabon ematera, neurea baizik.