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# Alberto Manguel

(1948)   Writer   Argentina

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Alberto Manguel is a writer from Argentina, best known for *A history of reading*.

## Quick Facts About Alberto Manguel

Born March 13, 1948

Nationality Argentina

Profession Writer

Notable works A history of reading

## About Alberto Manguel

He also works as an anthologist, essayist, novelist and editor. He speaks English, Spanish, German, French fluently and knows Italian and Portuguese well. He left Argentina at twenty in 1968 and has lived in Israel, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, the United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has led an international reading‑studies centre in Lisbon, named Espaço Atlântida in 2023, and he identifies as a Canadian citizen.

## Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship Prix Formentor Alfonso Reyes International Prize Officer of Arts and Letters Prix Médicis essai Officer of the Order of Canada Honorary doctor of the University of Liège Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Show 4 more awards Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers Q137761811 Q140367925

##  Quotes by Alberto Manguel · Page 3

> [In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/in-the-light-we-read-the-inventions-of-others-in-the-darkness-we/)

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> [I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-never-talked-to-anyone-about-my-reading-the-need-to-share-came/)

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> [“Cataloguing is an ancient profession; there are examples of such “ordainers of the universe” (as they were called by the Sumerians) among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/cataloguing-is-an-ancient-profession-there-are-examples-of-such/)

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> [“Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/like-petrach-s-my-books-know-infinitely-more-than-i-do-and-i-m/)

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> [Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/every-reader-has-found-charms-by-which-to-secure-possession-of-a-page/)

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> [But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/but-at-night-when-the-library-lamps-are-lit-the-outside-world/)

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> [There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/there-is-a-line-of-poetry-a-sentence-in-a-fable-a-word-in-an-essay-by/)

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> [Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/books-read-in-a-public-library-never-have-the-same-flavour-as-books/)

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> [“The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-power-of-readers-lies-not-in-their-ability-to-gather-information/)

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> [We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/we-read-to-understand-or-to-begin-to-understand-we-cannot-do-but-to/)

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> [“...any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/any-library-by-its-very-existence-conjures-up-its-forbidden-or/)

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> [“This is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/this-is-the-paradox-presented-by-every-general-library-that-if-to-a/)

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> [I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-know-my-time-will-come-soon-enough-but-i-will-not-dwell-on-it-what/)

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> [At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/at-one-magical-instant-in-your-early-childhood-the-page-of-a-book/)

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> [“As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/as-any-reader-knows-a-printed-page-creates-its-own-reading-space-its/)

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> [I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-had-a-library-of-maybe-1-000-books-in-my-room-in-buenos-aires-i-did/)

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> [Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/unicorns-dragons-witches-may-be-creatures-conjured-up-in-dreams-but/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/ordered-by-subject-by-importance-ordered-according-to-whether-the/)

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> [“The thing is, I don’t know if these stories he was telling were mine, or his, or someone else’s. You spend your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-thing-is-i-don-t-know-if-these-stories-he-was-telling-were-mine/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/libraries-whether-my-own-or-shared-with-a-greater-reading-public-have-2/)

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> [“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/no-one-stepping-for-the-first-time-into-a-room-made-of-books-can-know/)

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> [It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/it-has-always-been-my-experience-that-whatever-groupings-i-choose-for/)

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> [Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/old-or-new-the-only-sign-i-always-try-to-rid-my-books-of-usually-with/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/old-books-that-we-have-known-but-not-possessed-cross-our-path-and/)

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> [The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-readers-who-commited-suicide-after-reading-werther-were-not-ideal/)

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> [Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/entering-a-library-i-am-always-stuck-by-the-way-in-which-a-certain/)

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> [“Paolo and Francesca were not ideal readers since they confess to Dante that after the first kiss they read no more. Ideal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/paolo-and-francesca-were-not-ideal-readers-since-they-confess-to/)

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> [“A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/a-library-is-not-only-a-place-of-both-order-and-chaos-it-is-also-the/)

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> [Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/deserted-libraries-hold-the-shades-of-writers-who-worked-within-and/)

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> [All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/all-these-are-readers-and-their-gestures-their-craft-the-pleasure-the/)

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> [One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/one-book-calls-to-another-unexpectedly-creating-alliances-across/)

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> [I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-like-to-imagine-that-on-the-day-after-my-last-my-library-and-i-will/)

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> [The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-association-of-books-with-their-readers-is-unlike-any-other/)

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> [In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/in-every-literate-society-learning-to-read-is-something-of-an/)

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> [“Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/libraries-have-always-seemed-to-me-pleasantly-mad-places-and-for-as/)

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> [The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-world-that-is-a-book-is-devoured-bya-reader-who-is-a-letter-in/)

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> [I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-enjoyed-learning-the-poems-but-i-didn-t-understand-of-what-use-they/)

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> [Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/maybe-this-is-why-we-read-and-why-in-moments-of-darkness-we-return-to/)

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> [We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/we-are-losing-our-common-vocabulary-built-over-thousands-of-years-to/)

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> [Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/every-reader-exists-to-ensure-for-a-certain-book-a-modest-immortality/)

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