# Quote — Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Neveryon

> You were beautiful and heartless...in some ways rather a bore. But you have grown up into another over-refined soul of the sort our aristocracy is so good at producing and which produces so little itself save ways to spend unconscionable amounts on castles, clothes, and complex towers to keep comfortable impossible beasts.

- Author: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md)
- Book: [Tales of Neveryon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon.md)
- Page: 214
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Tales_of_Nev%C3%A8r%C3%BFon_(1979)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/you-were-beautiful

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> Look, if he’s alive, there’s nothing we have to do about it. If he’s dead, there’s nothing we can do.

p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/look-if-hes.md)

> The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/the-mark-of-the.md)

> One cannot truly trace the course of a life in a thousand pages. Let us have the reticence here not to attempt it in a thousand words.

p. 46 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/one-cannot-truly.md)