
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
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- But a reader’s ambition knows no bounds. – Alberto Manguel
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- (I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story), – David Halberstam
- 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
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- 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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- 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
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- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
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- Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magic. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms-”such things do exist. They’re called books. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully. – Bryant McGill
- Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness. – Debasish Mridha
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- In you I see an immaculate woman full of feminine grace and untarnished beauty. – Delano Johnson
- Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious. – Terry Goodkind
- No revolution, no political change, is ever born from immaculate conception. – Mike Klepper
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- A fresh day brings new sunrise and new hope for a fresh start. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The morning sun will bring you a fresh new day with a fresh new world of possibilities. – Debasish Mridha
- Keep the window of the mind open to let the fresh thoughts come in like fresh air. – Debasish Mridha
- A fresh year, a fresh life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We want a fresh start only because we didn’t sufficiently care for the last fresh start. – Craig D Lounsbrough