The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — 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
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where… — 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
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or… — 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
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered… — 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
“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
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
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — 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
“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
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
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
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“We read to understand our intuition of the world, to discover that someone a thousand miles and years away has put into… — 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 Image
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal… — 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
“Paolo and Francesca were not ideal readers since they confess to Dante that after the first kiss they read no more. Ideal… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the… — 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
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