Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged
Alberto ManguelReading 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.
Alberto ManguelFor 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.
Alberto ManguelFrom 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.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: libraries reading books stories
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 ManguelStichwörter: reading books tsundoku
Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
Alberto ManguelAnd sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave,' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us - the recognition of something we never knew was there, or of something we vaguely felt as a flicker or a shadow, whose ghostly form rises and passes back into us before we can see what it is, leaving us older and wiser.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: words reading books literature recognition
Systematisches Lesen ist kaum von Nutzen. Offizielle Bücherlisten (der Klassiker, der Literaturgeschichte, der zensurierten oder empfohlenen Bücher, der Bibliothekskataloge) können per Zufall den einen oder anderen nützlichen Hinweis geben. Die beste Anleitung bieten persönliche Launen – das Vertrauen auf das Lustprinzip und der Glaube an den Zufall -, die uns manchmal in einen provisorischen Zustand der Gnade versetzen, uns ermöglichen, Gold aus Flachs zu spinnen.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books bibliophily
في إحدى المناسبات سئل الحاخام ليفي اسحاق أحد كبار معلمي الحسيديين في القرن الثامن عشر عن سبب غياب الصفحة الأولى من جميع بحوث التلمود البابلي مما يدفع القارئ الى مباشرة القراءة بالصفحة الثانية. أجاب: (على الرغم من كثرة قراءات المرء، عليه ألا ينسى أبدا أنه لم يصل بعد إلى الصفحة الأولى
Alberto ManguelAs readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: morals revenge romance fiction forgiveness readers repentance
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