But since the facts which I should then have recalled would have been prompted only by an exercise of the will, by my intellectual memory, and since the pictures which that kind of memory shews us of the past preserve nothing of the past itself, I should never have had any wish to ponder over this residue of Combray.
Baina oroituko nukeèn hori guztia nahimenezko oroimenak hornitua izaki, hots, adimenaren oroimenak, zeinaren informazioek ez baitute iraganaldiaren ezeren mamirik gordetzen, sekula ez nukeen Combrayko gainerako zer horretaz pentsatzeko den mendren gogorik ere ukanen.