SimplyNeo Quotes

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me’

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.