It made me impatient to reach the age when I should be eligible to attend the class at school called 'Philosophy.' I did not wish to learn or do anything else there, but simply to exist and be guided entirely by the mind of Bergotte, and, if I had been told then that the metaphysicians whom I was actually to follow there resembled him in nothing, I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.
Hark bihurtzen ninduen irrikatsu, kolegiora eta zehazki Filosofia zeritzàn klasera sartzeko adinera noiz iritsiko ote nintzen. Hara orduko, Bergotteren filosofiaz ez bestez biziko nintzela, besterik ez nuen gogoan, eta orduan esan izan balitzait ezen gerora atxikiko nintzaièn metafisikariek ez zutela haren inolako antzik izango, norbait bizitza osorako maite nahi duen eta gerora izango dituen beste amoranteez hitz egiten dioten maiteminduaren etsimena sentituko nukeen.