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In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
– Alberto Manguel

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. – Alberto Manguel
  4. I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
  5. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
  6. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
  7. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
  8. Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – Alberto Manguel
  9. Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
  10. Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
  11. One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – Alberto Manguel
  12. 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
  13. Life happened because I turned the pages. – Alberto Manguel
  14. 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
  15. In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – 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. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
  18. But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – 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. A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page. – Israelmore Ayivor
  24. A self without a shelf remains cryptic a home without books naked. – Leah Price
  25. I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something. – Santosh Kalwar
  26. To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  27. Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  28. Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  29. When an empty person sits on an empty chair, the chair will still remain empty! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  30. Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. – Reif Larsen
  31. Fill what is empty empty what is full – davidji
  32. If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  33. You can get the answer of your every question in the empty hands of the beggar. But still you are questioning why his hands are empty. – Rumman Bin Sadiq
  34. To have an empty head is worse than to have an empty bank account. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  35. Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  36. Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches, your Grace. That’s my motto. – Melissa McPhail
  37. Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. – Samuel Butler
  38. I prefer the skylineof a shelf of books. – Jim Harrison
  39. If the choices you make are not quality, don’t put them on the top shelf. – TF Hodge
  40. I’m just not sure that I’m good enough for her. She’s a top shelf drink, I’m a house poured shot. – Yara Greathouse

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