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Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
– Alberto Manguel

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  1. The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. – Alberto Manguel
  2. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
  3. One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – 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. In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – Alberto Manguel
  6. Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – Alberto Manguel
  7. I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
  8. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
  9. Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – Alberto Manguel
  10. Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
  11. Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
  12. 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
  13. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. – 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. 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
  17. 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
  18. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
  19. But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – 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. The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  24. What is done unto people is also being done unto God – Sunday Adelaja
  25. Be good to those who are good,and just to those who are not;this is true wisdom.Do good unto others,not expecting them to do good unto you. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  26. Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s. – Barry Graham
  27. Unto the Cross came death, and unto death came the Cross. – Anthony Liccione
  28. Unto those who have,it shall,uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not,it shall,uncannily,be taken away. – Patrick Hamilton
  29. Contained within the breadth of my heart where you belong unto me and I unto you. – Truth Devour
  30. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you – Jesus Christ
  31. The lawyer’s world is entire unto itself, the human pared away. – Hilary Mantel
  32. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
  33. Your pain is a school unto itself-“-“ and your joy a lovely temple. – Aberjhani
  34. What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself? – Ashim Shanker
  35. The mind is an empire unto itself. – Steven Redhead
  36. Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  37. A well-lived day is medicine unto itself. – Acharya Shunya
  38. The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself. – Debasish Mridha
  39. One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  40. Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it. – Maureen Corrigan

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