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Life happened because I turned the pages.

Life happened because I turned the pages.
– Alberto Manguel

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  1. In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. – Alberto Manguel
  2. Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
  4. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
  5. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
  6. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
  7. Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – Alberto Manguel
  8. Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
  9. Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
  10. 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
  11. 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
  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. 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
  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. The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. – Alberto Manguel
  20. Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – Alberto Manguel
  21. In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. – Alberto Manguel
  22. Darkness promotes speech. – Alberto Manguel
  23. Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. – Alberto Manguel
  24. The Djojobojo Prophecy doesn’t just tell you WHAT happened and WHERE it happened…it tells you WHY it happened! – Yvonne B Murtha
  25. I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people. – Jennifer Donnelly
  26. The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. – Jay Kristoff
  27. Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short. – Sofija
  28. It is not enough for the hand to touch a book and turn its pages. The pages of a book must touch the heart. – JEB Spredemann
  29. Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. – Thrity Umrigar
  30. If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages. – Elaine Liner
  31. When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read. – Mary Street
  32. I’m Thankful in the knowledge that EVERY moment of this Life has happened For Me…Not one moment has happened TO me. – Raymond D Longoria Jr
  33. You don’t always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing. – Abby Fabiaschi
  34. It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit. – Larry Kramer
  35. Dr. Suess said: ‘Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened..’ I tell my dates: ‘Don’t cry because it happened, smile because it’s over – Josh Stern
  36. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. – James Baldwin
  37. And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. – John Green
  38. It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story. – Jenny Han
  39. If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened. – Kenneth de Guzman
  40. That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs. – Shannon L Alder

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