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The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

Alberto Manguel

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Alberto Manguel
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 13
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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 long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.
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As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
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