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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 4

> [“It is likely that libraries will carry on and survive, as long as we persist in lending words to the world that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/it-is-likely-that-libraries-will-carry-on-and-survive-as-long-as-we/)

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> [“Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/immaterial-as-water-too-vast-for-any-mortal-apprehension-the-web-s/)

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> [My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/my-books-hold-between-their-covers-every-story-i-ve-ever-known-and/)

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> [In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/in-any-of-my-pages-in-any-of-my-books-may-life-a-perfect-account-of/)

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> [Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/socrates-affirmed-that-only-that-which-the-reader-already-knows-can/)

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> [“The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-weight-of-absence-is-as-much-a-feature-of-any-library-as-the/)

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> [Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/most-readers-then-and-now-have-at-some-time-experienced-the/)

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> [A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/a-society-can-exist-many-do-exist-without-writing-but-no-society-can/)

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> [It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/it-hardly-matters-why-a-library-is-destroyed-every-banning/)

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> [“A day or so before his death, Borges called Bioy from Geneva. Bioy said that he sounded infinitely sad. “What are you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/a-day-or-so-before-his-death-borges-called-bioy-from-geneva-bioy-said/)

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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/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-have-no-feeling-of-guilt-regarding-the-books-i-have-not-read-and/)

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> [The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-listeners-who-buy-books-after-a-reading-multiply-that-reading-the/)

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> [I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-can-understand-that-there-are-those-who-can-think-and-imagine-the/)

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> [It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/it-used-to-be-that-readers-were-relegated-because-they-considered/)

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> [If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/if-the-library-of-alexandria-was-the-emblem-of-our-ambition-of/)

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> [Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/through-ignorance-through-faith-through-intelligence-through-trickery/)

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> [Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/digestion-of-words-as-well-i-often-read-aloud-to-myself-in-my-writing/)

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> [We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/we-seem-to-live-a-culture-that-doesn-t-want-blemishes-the-vision-of/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-shelves-of-books-we-haven-t-written-like-those-of-books-we-haven/)

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> [“Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/over-the-years-my-experience-my-tastes-my-prejudices-have-changed-as/)

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> [Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/our-books-will-bear-witness-for-or-against-us-our-books-reflect-who/)

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> [As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/as-readers-we-are-seldom-interested-in-the-fine-sentiments-of-a/)

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> [At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices… The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/at-night-here-in-the-library-the-ghosts-have-voices-the-various/)

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> [In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/in-the-dark-with-the-windows-lit-and-the-rows-of-books-glittering-the/)

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> [In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/in-the-books-by-ruy-sanchez-we-find-again-the-erotic-conviction-that/)

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> [“...the Bush administration may, in future years, be remembered 'for bringing peace to the Middle East' (as Condoleezza Rice has pronounced). History…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-bush-administration-may-in-future-years-be-remembered-for/)

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> [A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/a-writer-stops-writing-the-moment-he-or-she-puts-the-last-full-stop/)

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> [Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/our-society-accepts-the-book-as-a-given-but-the-act-of-reading-once/)

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> [A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/a-library-is-an-ever-growing-entity-it-multiples-seemingly-unaided-it/)

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> [“We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/we-read-to-under-stand-our-intu-ition-of-the-world-to-dis-cover-that/)

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> [The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/the-stories-that-unfold-in-the-space-of-a-writer-s-study-the-objects/)

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> [I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/i-ve-never-really-understood-attachment-to-a-place-for-reasons-of/)

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> [Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/reading-in-bed-is-a-self-centered-act-immobile-free-from-ordinary/)

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> [Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/without-leskov-there-would-be-no-bulgakov-no-chekhov-but-also-no/)

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> [For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/for-borges-the-core-of-reality-lay-in-books-reading-books-writing/)

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> [Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/nothing-moves-except-my-eyes-and-my-hand-occasionally-turning-a-page/)

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> [“Sartre, in his memoirs, confessed to much the same experience. "Like Plato, I passed from knowledge to its subject. I found more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/sartre-in-his-memoirs-confessed-to-much-the-same-experience-like/)

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> [This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/this-morning-i-looked-at-the-books-on-my-shelves-and-thought-that/)

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## Alberto Manguel by topic

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