"in the process of learning to identify objects immediately, we collect groups of identifying labels that apply to general categories of objects or sensory perceptions. In the strictest sense, no two objects and no two impressions ever resemble each other exactly, and the names we apply to them can quickly becomes like worn-out metaphors that hide from us the specificity of this object or this impression. Names give us a false epistemological security; we need them in order to organize, communicate, and act on our experience in the world, but they encourage us to take what are really approximate analogies for exact knowledge of particular things.” (Leo Bersani, Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Art and Life, 206)