Best Alberto Manguel Quotes
- The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. Commited
- We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the… Alchemy
- This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because… Book
- I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have… Book
- I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before. Builds
- At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave… Alien
- Life happened because I turned the pages. Happened
- All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I… All
- I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far… Adventure
- Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. Book
- I wanted to live among books. Among
- Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. Bullied
- The starting point is a question. Funny
- Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I… Always Seemed
- The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. Book
- In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I… Becoming
- But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. Book
- In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that… Beyond
- During the day, the library is a realm of order. Day
- One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. Across
- If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to… Echo
- My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill… Ancient
- At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. Ghost
- Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. Book
- In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. Account
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