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Passage Quotes by Alberto Manguel
- If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of…
- From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its…
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