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The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. ”
“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. ”
“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”
“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”
“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. ”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.”
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