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To say "I" is to draw a circle in which writer and reader share a common existence within the margins of the page, where reality and unreality rub off each other, where words and what the words name contaminate each other."
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as Stevenson so mournfully put it, "that is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes."
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Alberto Manguel |
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Partly, what we are may be what we believe we once were and lost.
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Alberto Manguel |
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Like the sea, the Web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months. Its virtue (its virtuality) entails a constant present-which for medieval scholars was one of the definitions of hell.23
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Alberto Manguel |
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we can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man's experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, can serve each singular reader for some secret, singular purpose.
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Alberto Manguel |
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I began by making assumptions about the stories Borges chose for me -- that Kipling's prose would be stilted, Stevenson's childish, Joyce's unintelligible -- buy very soon prejudice gave way to experience, and the discovery of one story gave way to another.
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Alberto Manguel |
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y hands, choosing a book to take to bed or to the reading-desk, for the train or for a gift, consider the form as much as the content. Depending on the occasion, depending on the place where I've chosen to read, I prefer something small and cosy or ample and substantial. Books declare themselves through their titles, their authors, their places in a catalogue or on a bookshelf, the illustrations on their jackets; books also declare themselv..
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Alberto Manguel |
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lqr@ lSmt@ knt mn l'mwr Gyr lm'lwf@, 'y 'n lmr kn yqr' bSwt `l.
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Alberto Manguel |
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I've often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years.
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Alberto Manguel |
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I could perhaps live without writing. I don't think I could live without reading.
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Alberto Manguel |
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the satisfaction of one answer merely leads to asking another question, and so on into infinity.
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Alberto Manguel |
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lmthl, wuDi`at qy'm@ b`shr@ 'sy'l@ "yjb `l~ l`lm 'n yTrHh" (klm@ "yjb" blG@ lHtjj) wdhlk mn `lm wflsf@ wujWihat lyhm d`w@ mn SHyf@ lGrdyn llndny@ sn@ 2010, wqd knt l'sy'l@ hy: "m hw lw`y?", w" m ldhy Hdth qbl lnfjr l`Zym?", w" hl say`yd l`lm wlhnds@ ln frdnytn?", w" kyf snt`T~ m` ltzyd lskny fy l`lm?", w" hl thmW@ nmT ll`dd l'wlyW?", w" hl bmknn btkr Tryq@ tfkyr `lmy@ qbl@ llt`mym lmTlq?", w" kyf ln 'n nDmn bq lbshry@ wzdhrh?", w" hl ymkn l..
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Alberto Manguel |
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wlwl lHkyt, lbqyt l'dyn jmy`h mHDu w`Z, flHkyt hy lty tqni`un.
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bwktshyw, nW dnty, m` muDyWh quduman fy ktb@ lkwmydy, rH yrsl lmqT` lmktml@ l'Hd Humtih whw knGrndy dilW skl (Cangrande della Scala) wdhlk fy mjmw`t tDmW stW@ 'nshyd 'w thmny@ fy b`D l'Hyn. wfy nhy@ lmTf, stlm knGrndy l`ml kmlan bstthn l'nshyd lthlth@ `shr l'khyr@ mn "lfrdws", wb`d 'shhr mn wf@ dnty, bHth 'bnw'h wtlmydhh fy 'wrqh lm`rf@ hl kn lm yukmil l'nshyd lmfqwd@, wHyn lm y`thrw `l~ shy; km yqwl bwktshyw, fqd "sh`rw blHnq l'nW lrbW lm ..
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Alberto Manguel |
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reading is at the beginning of the social contract"
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Alberto Manguel |
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I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.
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Alberto Manguel |
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A book brings its own history to the reader.
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Alberto Manguel |
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One can transform a place by reading in it.
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Alberto Manguel |
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From its very start, reading is writings apotheosis.
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Alberto Manguel |
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Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
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Alberto Manguel |
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The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
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Alberto Manguel |
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As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
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Alberto Manguel |
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Every text assumes a reader.
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