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 Manguel

Mots clés libraries world library order



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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

Mots clés reading books read book



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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés library ghosts



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Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés computers internet



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

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés reading books book reader immortality rebirth



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In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés books world secret book pages



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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 Manguel

Mots clés books censorship library book-burning banned banning



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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

Mots clés reading books book titles



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In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés books library



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

Alberto Manguel

Mots clés libraries books bookshelves tsundoku



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