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."
"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."
"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."
"If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity."