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Reading Quotes by Alberto Manguel
- A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
- At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when…
- Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
- For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing…
- The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.
- I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
- 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…
- Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
- 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…
- The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
- Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
- Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and…
- Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between…
- As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has…
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