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I wanted to live among books.

I wanted to live among books.
– Alberto Manguel

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  1. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
  2. Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – Alberto Manguel
  3. Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
  4. But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. – Alberto Manguel
  5. From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. – Alberto Manguel
  6. In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – Alberto Manguel
  7. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
  8. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
  9. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
  10. Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
  11. 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. – Alberto Manguel
  12. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. – Alberto Manguel
  13. One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – Alberto Manguel
  14. 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. – Alberto Manguel
  15. Life happened because I turned the pages. – Alberto Manguel
  16. Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. – Alberto Manguel
  17. But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – Alberto Manguel
  18. The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. – Alberto Manguel
  19. Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – Alberto Manguel
  20. In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. – Alberto Manguel
  21. Darkness promotes speech. – Alberto Manguel
  22. Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. – Alberto Manguel
  23. I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them. – Neil Gaiman
  24. I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. – Becca Fitzpatrick
  25. O let us live in joy, in love among those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love. – Anonymous
  26. Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  27. I’m sorry, I say. I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
  28. Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom! – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  29. We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It’s the evil among us who rule now. – Anne Bishop
  30. The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians. – William MacDonald
  31. Leaders move among the various stages each day. But effective leaders move among the right stages at the right times. – Liz Weber
  32. Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. – Barbara Cartland
  33. among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn – Idries Shah
  34. We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t. – Frank Clark
  35. Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion. – Cormac McCarthy
  36. Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. – William Beveridge
  37. Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. – WH Auden
  38. Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects. – Christopher Paolini
  39. The greatest among you are those with the greatest love.The richest among you are those with the most joy. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  40. The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools. – Santosh Kalwar

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