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
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- Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
- 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
- In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. – Alberto Manguel
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- Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
- woMAN-ipulate or IMAGE-innateDid GOD create MAN in his own image? ORDid MAN create GOD in his own image? – Kamil Ali
- Beauty is not the reflection of your image, but the reflection of the seer’s inner vision. – Debasish Mridha
- I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
- Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
- Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
- Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
- One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – Alberto Manguel
- 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
- Life happened because I turned the pages. – Alberto Manguel
- In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – Alberto Manguel
- 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
- Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
- But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – Alberto Manguel
- Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – Alberto Manguel
- In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. – Alberto Manguel
- Darkness promotes speech. – Alberto Manguel
- Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. – Alberto Manguel
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
- Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry Truman
- My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
- The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. – Robert Galbraith
- All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
- Sometimes, authors’ descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back. – Ben Abix
- Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. – Reif Larsen
- A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. – Simone Weil
- How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can’t see the image of God? – Michael Bassey Johnson
- We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it. – Jorge Luis Borges
- Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time. – Karen Azinger
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- The person who have a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image. – Bob Proctor
- The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image. – Bob Proctor
- Although mankind is made from mere dust of the ground, we are made in the image of God. As we emulate His image, we have value and purpose. – Todd Coburn
- Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear. – Steve Corbett