In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
Alberto ManguelTags: libraries books library librarian
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
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 ManguelEntering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.
Alberto ManguelA library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.
Alberto ManguelEvery library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Tags: library
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
Alberto ManguelTags: world library encyclopedia
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
Alberto ManguelTags: books reflection library readers
The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.
Alberto ManguelDigestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
Alberto ManguelTags: words reading books read library text
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