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“The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.”

Alberto Manguel

Endpaper Pages, p. 309.
A History of Reading (1996)

“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

Source: A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A History of Reading

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A History of Reading

“I wanted to live among books.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A History of Reading

“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“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.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: A History of Reading

“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.”

Alberto Manguel

Source: The Library at Night

“The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.”

Alberto Manguel

The Symbolic Reader, p. 214.
A History of Reading (1996)

“Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.”

Alberto Manguel

Private Reading, p. 152.
A History of Reading (1996)

“The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.”

Alberto Manguel

The Author As Reader, p. 259.
A History of Reading (1996)