“Books are our best possessions in life, they are our immortality.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show -… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Only when, years later, I touched for the first time my lover's body did I realize that literature could sometimes fall short… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The web will not be the container of our cosmopolitan past, like a book, because it is not a book and will… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night:… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“There is nothing,” Naudé wrote, “that renders a Library more recommendable, than when every man finds in it that which he is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that the definition of library has changed. Libraries have never been repositories solely of books. In Alexandria for instance,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I think I read in at least two ways. First, by following, breathlessly, the events and the characters without stopping to notice… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
“Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
“Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
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 Copy Share
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share
![“Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the reading process. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading…” quote by Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9ce/alberto-manguel-2467_books_alexandria-and-its-scholars-never-mistoo_2098862.jpg)
