I was thinking about these notions of speech and thought, thinking how difficult it would be for me to articulate them — or not difficult, but wearisome, as if thinking them was enough and expressing them would be redundant or inferior, for everyone knows things are diminished by translation, it is always best to read a book in its original language (À la recherche du temps perdu). Translations are merely subjective approximations and that is how I feel about everything I say: it is not what I am thinking but merely the closest I can get to it using the faulty reductive constraints of language. And so I often think it is better to say nothing than to express myself inexactly.