Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest im... - 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."
More quotes by Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
"Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted."
"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."
"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."
"Unpacking books is a revelatory activity."
"In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond."