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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.

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

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  1. Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn’t have an happy ending, unlike the Fable. – Neetesh Dixit
  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. 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
  4. Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water. – Kamand Kojouri
  5. Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. – GH Hardy
  6. If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. – John Kenneth Galbraith
  7. I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
  8. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
  9. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
  10. Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – Alberto Manguel
  11. Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
  12. Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
  13. 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
  14. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. – Alberto Manguel
  15. One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – Alberto Manguel
  16. Life happened because I turned the pages. – Alberto Manguel
  17. 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
  18. In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – Alberto Manguel
  19. 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
  20. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
  21. But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – Alberto Manguel
  22. The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. – Alberto Manguel
  23. Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – Alberto Manguel
  24. In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. – Alberto Manguel
  25. Darkness promotes speech. – Alberto Manguel
  26. Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. – Alberto Manguel
  27. As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence’s death, C was blessed with ‘the power of musical intent. – Bruce Springsteen
  28. Writing is about truth, whether it be fiction or a school essay. Don’t give in and ‘fake it till you make it.’ Criticize what upsets you. – Bryant Loney
  29. It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  30. When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape… – AbdulRauf Hashmi
  31. Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. – TE Lawrence
  32. The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right. – Vikas Swarup
  33. The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence. – Augustine Birrell
  34. O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  35. Be assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy wars for him. – Christina Engela
  36. Existence of existence depends on what exists on your existence!! – Balkrishn Sanmotra
  37. The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing. – Richard Dawkins
  38. The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  39. I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really about animals. – Margaret Atwood
  40. Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands? – Zia Haider Rahman

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