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 Manguel

Tag: libraries books library librarian



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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

Tag: libraries world library order



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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

Tag: books death library



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Entering 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 Manguel

Tag: libraries library



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A 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 Manguel

Tag: books library



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Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Tag: library



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The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Alberto Manguel

Tag: world library encyclopedia



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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 Manguel

Tag: books reflection library readers



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The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

Alberto Manguel

Tag: libraries library



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Digestion 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 Manguel

Tag: words reading books read library text



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