But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside wo... - Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
"But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence."
More quotes by Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
"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."
"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."
"If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity."