I could believe this all the more readily (and also that the caresses by which she would bring that savour to my senses were themselves of a particular kind, yielding a pleasure which I could never derive from any but herself) since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one has tasted it, when one has not reduced it to a general idea which makes one regard them thenceforward as the variable instruments of a pleasure that is always the same.
Hainbatenaz errazago sinets nezakeen irudipen hura (baita dastamen hartaraino eramanen ninduketèn laztanak guztiz bereziak izango ziratekeela ere, beste ezein emakumeren bidez ezin ezagutuzko plazer baten eragile), zenbatenaz ni oraindik, eta luzarorako, plazer-kide izan ditugun hainbat emakumeren edukitzaren plazera oraindik berorietako bakoitzarengandik ezin banandu izaten dugun adin horretan bainengoen, plazera nozio orokor batera errendiarazi ezin izaten dugunekoan, oraindik ez baikara jabetzen ezen emakume diferenteok plazer beti bat beraren bitarteko elkar-trukagarriak besterik ez direla.