Absence Quote by Alberto Manguel

“Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.”

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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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“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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