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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.
Alberto Manguel
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Alberto Manguel
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 13
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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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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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