9 beautiful quotes by Alberto Manguel. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Alberto Manguel
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
“I wanted to live among books.”
“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into...
“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and...
“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is b...
“We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full o...
“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”
“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”
