Alberto Manguel Quotes
Top 59 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.
Only when, years later, I touched for the first time my lover's body did I realize that literature could sometimes fall short of the actural event.
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
Deadlines comes as a surprise ... superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
Few of us, however, have Alice's courage, at the end of the book, to stand up (literally)for our convictions and refuse to hold our tongue.
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked..
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.