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| 64c1c23 | Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. | John Henry Newman | ||
| 5144623 | As John Henry Cardinal Newman says: "Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and pride of man."10 The idea of giving God everything sounded good in principle; living it was another matter. I did not know if I could give him that. But I sensed that if I didn't, if I .. | Tyler Blanski | ||
| f199d76 | I want something; I know not what. It is you that I want, though I so little understand this. I say it and take it on faith; I partially understand it, but very poorly. Shine on me "O fire ever burning and never failing," and I shall begin, through and in your light, to see light and to recognize you truly, as the source of light. Mane nobiscum. Stay, sweet Jesus; stay forever. In this decay of nature, give more grace. Stay with me, and the.. | John Henry Newman | ||
| 7f0797b | as Blessed John Henry Newman put it, "our duty as Christians lies in this, in making ventures for eternal life without the absolute certainty of success." | Charles J. Chaput | ||
| d85f74d | Ihre Geheimnisse sind nicht anderes als die in menschliche Sprache gekleideten Formeln von Wahrheiten, die der menschliche Geist nicht zu erfassen vermag | John Henry Newman | ||
| 34af2de | Lebendige Bewegungen gehen nicht von Komitees aus und grosse Ideen werden nicht durch einen Briefwechsel ausgearbeitet, selbst wenn das Porto noch so gunstig ist. | John Henry Newman | ||
| 770fb85 | The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent manifestation of true ones. Moreover, | John Henry Newman | ||
| b67a929 | The Incarnation is the most stupendous event which ever can take place on earth; and after it and henceforth, I do not see how we can scruple at any miracle on the mere ground of its being unlikely to happen. -- Blessed John Henry Newman | Paul Thigpen | ||
| 0d95b11 | I watched other kids and tried to figure out what made me different. Was it their clothes, their expressions, their hair? Was it the TV shows they talked about, the songs they sang, the way they stood with their hands in their pockets and their JanSport backpacks dangling from just one shoulder? How did some girls know, without being told, which boys to talk to and which to avoid? Why was Andrea Freeh, who was very heavy, popular with girls.. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 6dc756b | No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer. | depression inspirational-life | Andrea Levy | |
| 1963686 | The short-lived Confederate States of America was a signal event in the history of the Western world. What secessionists set out to build was something entirely new in the history of nations: a modern proslavery and antidemocratic state, dedicated to the proposition that all men were not created equal. | Stephanie McCurry | ||
| 5d8618b | I'm still glad that we didn't shake their hands. They were whiners and criers. Piss on them. | Bill Laimbeer | ||
| 4272266 | Each technology has its own merits, and therefore it may be more useful to leave aside this crusading view of the electronic word vanquishing the printed one and explore instead each technology according to its particular merits. Perhaps | Alberto Manguel | ||
| f170e48 | Imensamente generosos, os meus livros, nao me fazem nenhuma exigencia, antes me oferecem todo tipo de iluminacao. | books library livro | Alberto Manguel | |
| 4e83d7e | Geschichten sind unser Gedachtnis, Bibliotheken die Lagerstatten fur dieses Gedachtnis und Lesen das Handwerk, mit dem wir dieses Gedachtnis neu erschaffen konnen, indem wir es rezitieren und glossieren, es wieder in unsere eigene Erfahrung ruckubersetzen und so auf dem aufbauen, was fruhere Generationen fur bewahrenswert hielten. | memory readers reception | Alberto Manguel | |
| 9256e98 | Lesen ist eine Erinnerungsarbeit, bei der wir durch Geschichten in den Genuss der vergangenen Erfahrungen anderer kommen, als waren es unsere eigenen. | reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| 96d3c77 | When innocent people find themselves in situations that require the presence and protection of people like me, their reaction more often than not is as much bewilderment as fear. Mortality is tough to process. But | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 3529fca | Work in the fields? Senator, I'm a house nigga. | Bill Maher | ||
| ad59051 | Rooms, corridors, bookcases, shelves, filing cards, and computerized catalogues assume that the subjects on which our thoughts dwell are actual entities, and through this assumption a certain book may be lent a particular tone and value. Filed under Fiction, Jonathon Swift's is a humorous novel of adventure; under Sociology, a satirical study of England in the eighteenth century; under Children's Literature, an entertaining fable about dw.. | literature reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| 4c71600 | Tal como os livros de Petrarca, os meus sabem infinitamente mais do que eu e agradeco-lhes por sequer tolerarem a minha presenca. Por vezes, sinto que abuso desse privilegio. | books library livro | Alberto Manguel | |
| af947dd | The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles against the stringencies of time by bringing fragments of the past into their present. It grants them a glimpse, however secret or distant, into the minds of other human beings, and allows them a certain knowledge of their own condition through the stories stored here for their perusal. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 6a72085 | All | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 13c70cf | Die Freunde, an die ich denke, sind in der Zeit gefangen wie in einem Film. Sie (viele von ihnen sind tot, verschollen) sind in dem Alter, in dem ich sie zuletzt gesehen habe; ich bezweifle, dass sie mich jetzt wiedererkennen wurden. | friends inspirational memory past remembering vergangenheit | Alberto Manguel | |
| 692ca27 | Hier in Buenos Aires traume ich auf Spanisch von Menschen, die nicht sprechen und mich nicht horen - und immer von der Stadt, wie ich sie fruher kannte, niemals, wie sie heute ist. | sprache träume | Alberto Manguel | |
| e58a850 | Was andere als unsere Errungenschaften betrachten, ist oft nicht das, was wir selbst so sehen. | selbstbild | Alberto Manguel | |
| 84a54b1 | Erinnerungen und Scheinerinnerungen. Ich glaube, mich genau an etwas zu erinnern. Eine Notiz auf dem Nachsatzpapier eines Buches, das ich durch Zufall aufschlage, beweist, dass ich mich irre. Die Sache ist irgendwo anders passiert, mit jemand anderem, zu einer anderen Zeit. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 8e18348 | Kitaplarla saskina donmus Don Quijote ve hac yolcusu Dante, ogrendikleriyle felce ugrayan Prens Hamlet, okuduklariyla yasamak istedigi hayati birbirine karistiran Emma Bovary.. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| e7de6fd | ktaba synyk (Seneca) mdiHan lfDwl bqwlh: lqd Habatn lTby`@ fDwlan fTryWan, wnTlqan mn drkh fnWh wjmlh, swWtn lnkwn jmhwr hdh l`rD lmdhsh ll`lm, dhlk 'nW hdh ljml kn sydhhb sd~ lw 'nW 'shy bhdhh l`Zam@ wlrw`@ wltdbyr lrWqyq, wbhdh ltnwW` lbdy`, knt stu`raDu `l~ kwkbin Gyr m'hwl. 67 | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 8362f99 | We read to find the end, for the story's sake. We read not to reach it, for the sake of the reading itself. We read searchingly, like trackers, oblivious of our surroundings. We read distractedly, skipping pages. We read contemptuously, admiringly, negligently, angrily, passionately, enviously, longingly. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 6cfd4d3 | kl nS ymknu qrth knS mjzy , l lfSHh `n l`nSr lmwjwd@ khrj lnS nfsh wHsb , bl l'n kl tfsyr hw mjzy bHd dhth wbltly mwDw` ltfsyrt l'khr~ ....... nZran l~ 'n ltfsyr l yHtwy `l~ m ymkn 'n ysm~ " lklm@ l'khyr@ " , l twjd 'y slT@ tstTy` 'n tfrD `lyn "ltfsyr lSHyH " . m` mrwr lwqt lHZn 'n b`D ltfsyrt kna 'Hsn mn tfsyrt khr~ 'kthr Hbk@ , 'kthr Sf wshffy@, 'kthr tHdyan , 'kthr b`than `l~ lHbwr , 'kthr `jan . Ht~ hdhh llHZ@ `ndm stmt` bqr@ ktb t`rD .. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 33821de | 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." | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 0a4d70e | as Stevenson so mournfully put it, "that is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes." | Alberto Manguel | ||
| eed3540 | Partly, what we are may be what we believe we once were and lost. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 9981980 | 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 | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 64e5784 | 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. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 323aa4e | 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. | prejudice reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| 1b0330b | 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.. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| d83638a | lqr@ lSmt@ knt mn l'mwr Gyr lm'lwf@, 'y 'n lmr kn yqr' bSwt `l. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| a403d33 | I've often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years. | libraries library self | Alberto Manguel | |
| 87cc63f | I could perhaps live without writing. I don't think I could live without reading. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 5b123ce | the satisfaction of one answer merely leads to asking another question, and so on into infinity. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 807cb4c | 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.. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 6671843 | wlwl lHkyt, lbqyt l'dyn jmy`h mHDu w`Z, flHkyt hy lty tqni`un. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 42bb4c6 | 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 .. | Alberto Manguel |