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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
– Isabel Allende

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  2. I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too. – Isabel Allende
  3. I can promise you that women working together -“ linked, informed and educated -“ can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. – Isabel Allende
  4. Writing is a calling, not a choice. – Isabel Allende
  5. write with honesty and don’t worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they’ll hate you anyway. – Isabel Allende
  6. I go, but I always remember you. – Isabel Allende
  7. We only have what we give. – Isabel Allende
  8. I’d realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story. – Isabel Allende
  9. Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally. – Isabel Allende
  10. He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. – Isabel Allende
  11. Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. – Isabel Allende
  12. I have heard that we are spirits having a human experience. Perhaps those of us who have no conscience are dark spirits having a human experience. – PA Speers
  13. Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God’s loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night! – Victor Hugo
  14. Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines — it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. – Robin Sloan
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? – John Fowles
  20. I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds–this was a comfort to me. – Alice Munro
  21. Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. – Reif Larsen
  22. They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints. – Alison Weir
  23. I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids. – CS Lewis
  24. My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. – Peter S Beagle
  25. An ideal world inhabited by carefree people is nothing more than a utopia. – Eraldo Banovac
  26. My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits. – Nell Casey
  27. My grief sought out all parts of my body it hadn’t yet inhabited, and I felt like I might collapse in on myself right there, at last, spectacularly – John Darnielle
  28. It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
  29. I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited. – Elisa Albert
  30. She inhabited a world from which I was excluded, and she had left me in an immense empty space. – Alfred Hayes
  31. Friday night’s alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday tooEvery night is a night of fightingWith family and friends like you – JessicaLynn Barbour
  32. I dreamt of you last night – as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. – Vladimir Nabokov
  33. Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will they come, when you do call for them? – William Shakespeare
  34. I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. – Jules Verne
  35. Come out, come out, wherever you are… come out, come out, or you’ll end up in the tar… – Beatrice Rose Roberts
  36. From rocks come gold.From coal comes diamonds.From oysters come pearls.From caterpillars come ????erflies.From adversity come the great. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  37. The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power. – Gabriel Garca Mrquez
  38. 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
  39. A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the – Victor Hugo
  40. A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can’t stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious. – Helen Oyeyemi

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