“Perhaps they are inseparable from love; perhaps everything that formed a distinctive feature of our first love comes to attach itself to those that follow, by virtue of recollection, suggestion, habit , and, through the successive periods of our life, gives to its different aspects a general character.” ( (Proust, 562)

I think this passage is saying you either gain or lose from love and from either of these outcomes you bring what you have learned into your future relationship and it forms a general look/ character of the type of love you want/ are looking for in a lover/ relationship. I guess this coincides with my last journal entry, the aspect of learning from your mistakes to ensure your future.

This makes me wonder about the similarities between the narrator and the last volume we read “Swans Way.” A lot of people in seminar were saying that the narrator and Swan have the same obsessive personalities. Like on page 560, “…I failed to catch a glimpse of them, not knowing the cause of their absence I sought to discover whether it was something fixed and regular, if they were to be seen only every other day, or in certain kinds of weather, or if there were days on which they were not to be seen at all. I imagined myself already friends with them, and saying: ‘But you weren’t there the other day?” “Weren’t we? Oh no of course not; it was a Saturday. On Saturdays we don’t ever come because…’ If only it were simply a matter of knowing that on a black Saturday it was useless to torment oneself.” The narrator and Swann both like to create scenarios to freak themselves out and i find it quite amusing, yet its such torture for the character. I also  see other comparisons between the characters and it makes me wonder, if this aspect of learning from our past will follow through and give the narrator what he wants.