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“A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.” quote by Alberto Manguel — Download Open image

“A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.”

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

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Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as…

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At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,…

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I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have…

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“Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side of the road. The sight could not have lasted very long; perhaps the car stopped for a moment, perhaps it slowed down long enough for me to see, large and looming shapes similar to those in…

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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…

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“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days. They don't require that I pretend to know them all, nor do they urge me to become one of the "professional book-handlers" ...…

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Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with…

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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…

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The starting point is a question.

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“Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.”

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

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