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Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
Alberto Manguel
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Alberto Manguel
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 13
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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 the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
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When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.
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It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.
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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 acquired through dead letters.
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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 story.
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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
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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 takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.
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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
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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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I don't remember ever feeling lonely in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.
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I never talked to anyone about my reading the need to share came afterwords.
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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.
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