Here is an excerpt from "À la recherche du temps perdu":
English translation:
Seconded. There is probably nothing more painful than that. It is pure, genuine Pain®.
The text almost summarizes what I was feeling and was trying to say during these times.
PS. thank you funul, for sharing this :)
[...] le temps qui change les êtres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons gardée d'eux. Rien n'est plus douloureux que cette opposition entre l'altération des êtres et la fixité du souvenir, quand nous comprenons que ce qui a gardé tant de fraîcheur dans notre mémoire n'en peut plus avoir dans la vie, que nous ne pouvons, au dehors, nous rapprocher de ce qui nous paraît si beau au-dedans de nous, de ce qui excite en nous un désir pourtant si individuel de le revoir.
English translation:
[...] time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. Indeed nothing is more painful than this contrast between the mutability of people and the fixity of memory, when it is borne in upon us that what has preserved so much freshness in our memory can no longer possess any trace of that quality in life, that we cannot now, outside ourselves, approach and behold again what inside our mind seems so beautiful, what excites in us a desire (a desire apparently so individual) to see it again.
Seconded. There is probably nothing more painful than that. It is pure, genuine Pain®.
The text almost summarizes what I was feeling and was trying to say during these times.
PS. thank you funul, for sharing this :)
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