"It's a funny thing, now; I very often think of my poor wife, but
I cannot think of her for long at a time."
"Often, but a little at a time, like poor old Swann," became one of my
grandfather's favourite sayings...
-- Marcel Proust. Swann's Way (1913) p.18
(tr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin
revised by D. J. Enright -- 1992)