As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. - Alberto Manguel
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.
- Alberto Manguel
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. - Alberto Manguel
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. - Alberto Manguel
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read befor… - Alberto Manguel
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read befor…
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. - Alberto Manguel
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. - Alberto Manguel
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its ord… - Alberto Manguel
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its ord…
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, … - Alberto Manguel
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, …
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certai… - Alberto Manguel
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certai…
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