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In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
– Alberto Manguel

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  1. Life happened because I turned the pages. – Alberto Manguel
  2. 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
  3. I wanted to live among books. – Alberto Manguel
  4. Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. – Alberto Manguel
  5. Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. – Alberto Manguel
  6. Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. – Alberto Manguel
  7. 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
  8. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. – Alberto Manguel
  9. The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. – Alberto Manguel
  10. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel
  11. Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be – Alberto Manguel
  12. 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
  13. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. – Alberto Manguel
  14. Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. – Alberto Manguel
  15. 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
  16. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. – Alberto Manguel
  17. One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. – Alberto Manguel
  18. 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
  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. But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – 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. In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another. – JRR Tolkien
  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. 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
  27. 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
  28. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. – Oscar Wilde
  29. Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. – Vince Lombardi Jr
  30. There is no perfect condition so now is the perfect time and today is the perfect day to take action. – Debasish Mridha
  31. Why should I be perfect.. when I’m already imperfectly perfect. And that’s what is unique and perfect about me. – Abhishek Kumar
  32. Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true. – Mary Ann Shaffer
  33. Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages? – Deb Loughead
  34. Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books. – Adelise M Cullens
  35. From the Balance sheet of humanity, to the Profit & Loss account of emotions, I am all in good books. I am a Chartered Accountant. – Vikrmn
  36. The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,The secret of life is Don’t ever lose your senses in the NOW. – Sushil Singh
  37. The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power. – Saminu Kanti
  38. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
  39. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
  40. Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive. – Chris Grabenstein

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