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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 already know.
Alberto Manguel
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Alberto Manguel
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 13
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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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 existence.
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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 omnipresence the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.
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The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.
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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 was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
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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 conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.
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If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.
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Every text assumes a reader.
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In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
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I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.
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The starting point is a question.
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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, so that when I finally decide to turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've just closed.
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One can transform a place by reading in it.
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Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
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I never talked to anyone about my reading the need to share came afterwords.
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The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
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Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.
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