We try to discover in things, endeared to us on that account, the spiritual glamour which we ourselves have cast upon them; we are disillusioned, and learn that they are in themselves barren and devoid of the charm which they owed, in our minds, to the association of certain ideas;
Gauzetan bilatzen duguna-eta gauza horiek baliotsu bihurtzen dizkigunaberaien gainera gure arimak jaurtiki duenaren isla izan ohi da, eta etsipen-puntua sentitzen dugu egiaztatzerakoan ezen naturan gauza horiek azken finean gabetuak daudela gure gogoan zenbait ideiarekiko zutèn bizi-hurbiltasunari zor ziotèn xarmaz;