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Evil requires no reason. — Alberto Manguel

The starting point is a question. — Alberto Manguel

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. — Alberto Manguel

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. — Alberto Manguel

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. — Alberto Manguel

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — Alberto Manguel

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space. — Alberto Manguel

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. — Alberto Manguel

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence. — Alberto Manguel

To lend a book is an incitement to theft.
A Reader on Reading p. 281 — Alberto Manguel

Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal. — Alberto Manguel

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. — Alberto Manguel

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia. — Alberto Manguel

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. — Alberto Manguel

I wanted to live among books. — Alberto Manguel

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. — Alberto Manguel

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. — Alberto Manguel

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. — Alberto Manguel

A book brings its own history to the reader. — Alberto Manguel

Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone. — Alberto Manguel

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. — Alberto Manguel

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary ... — Alberto Manguel

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. — Alberto Manguel

The telling of stories creates the real world. — Alberto Manguel

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. — Alberto Manguel

Reading is at the beginning of the social contract — Alberto Manguel

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. — Alberto Manguel

Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word. — Alberto Manguel

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. — Alberto Manguel

Books are our best possessions in life, they are our immortality. — Alberto Manguel

Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be — Alberto Manguel

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. — Alberto Manguel

Deadlines comes as a surprise ... superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping. — Alberto Manguel

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. — Alberto Manguel

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

Darkness promotes speech. — Alberto Manguel

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. — Alberto Manguel

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds. — Alberto Manguel

Life happened because I turned the pages. — Alberto Manguel

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. — Alberto Manguel

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. — Alberto Manguel

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. — Alberto Manguel

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. — Alberto Manguel

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. — Alberto Manguel

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. — Alberto Manguel

Partly, what we are may be what we believe we once were and lost. — Alberto Manguel

During the day, the library is a realm of order. — Alberto Manguel

Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked.. — Alberto Manguel

One can transform a place by reading in it. — Alberto Manguel

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity. — Alberto Manguel

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. — Alberto Manguel

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. — Alberto Manguel

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. — Alberto Manguel

the satisfaction of one answer merely leads to asking another question, and so on into infinity. — Alberto Manguel

I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords. — Alberto Manguel

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel