More quotes by Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

"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."
"Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read."
"But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence."
"In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long."
"There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured."