If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.
Alberto ManguelTags: libraries world library order
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 ManguelAt night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
Alberto ManguelImmaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.
Alberto ManguelEvery reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
Alberto ManguelTags: reading books book reader immortality rebirth
In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
Alberto ManguelTags: books world secret book pages
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.
Alberto ManguelTags: books censorship library book-burning banned banning
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 ManguelTags: reading books book titles
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
Alberto ManguelUltimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.
Alberto ManguelTags: libraries books bookshelves tsundoku
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