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Category: Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

library, writers

Alberto Manguel

Darkness promotes speech.

dark, darkness, speech

Alberto Manguel

Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web’s outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

computers, internet

Alberto Manguel

Like Petrach’s, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I’m grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.

Alberto Manguel

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

libraries, library

Alberto Manguel

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

Alberto Manguel

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

libraries, library

Alberto Manguel

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.

libraries, library

Alberto Manguel

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

libraries, library

Alberto Manguel

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

ghosts, library

Alberto Manguel

Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

almanacs, chronologies, histories, progress

Alberto Manguel

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

censorship, dictators, illiteracy, reading