“ На Калимах дължим и едно каталожно улеснение, което започва да се прилага най-широко: подреждането на книгите по азбучен ред. Alberto Manguel
“ 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 chos… Alberto Manguel
“ There is nothing, Naudé wrote, that renders a Library more recommendable, than when every man finds in it that which he is looking for and cannot find anywhere else; therefore the perfect motto is, th… Alberto Manguel
“ Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side of the road. The sight could not have lasted very long; perhaps the car stopped… Alberto Manguel
“ The web will not be the container of our cosmopolitan past, like a book, because it is not a book and will never be a book, in spite of the endless gadgets and guises invented to force it into that ro… Alberto Manguel
“ The categories that a reader brings to a reading, and the categories in which that reading itself is placed - the learned social and political categories, and the physical categories into which a libr… Alberto Manguel
“ Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful… Alberto Manguel
“ Je me rendis compte que personne - pas même mon père, assis à quelques pas de moi - ne pouvait pénétrer mon espace de lecture, distinguer ce que le livre m'expliquait avec impudeur, et que rien, sinon… Alberto Manguel
“ But there is something other than entertainment which one derives from reading in bed: a particular quality of privacy. Reading in bed is a self-centred act, immobile, free from ordinary social conven… Alberto Manguel
“ لا تحتاج المكتبة كي تكون نافعة أن تقرأ بمجموعها، إذ أن كل قاريء ينتفع من التوازن المناسب بين المعرفة و الجهل، التذكر و النسان. Alberto Manguel
“ كسلان ،واهن القوى ،متبجح ،متحذلق ،مدعي الانتماء إلى النخبةهذه الصفات وغيرها ألصقت على مر الأيام بالأستاذ الشارد الذهن ،بالقاريء القصير النظر ،وبالمولعين بالكتبمدفون في الكتب ،معزول عن عالم الحقائق وال… Alberto Manguel
“ أن قراءات الآخرين تترك أثرها بكل تأكيد على قراءاتي الخاصة، فهي تهبني وجهات نظر جديدة أو تلون أمامي بعض المقاطع، لكنها تشبه في معظمها الذبابة الصغيرة التي ما فتئت تنغض على أليس بوشوشتها الدائمة: (يمكنك… Alberto Manguel
“ أما الغريب في الأمر فهو أننا لا ننقطع أبدًا عن ممارسة فعل القراءة على الرغم من أننا لا نملك تفسيرًا مرضيًا لما نفعله Alberto Manguel
“ You don't immediately understand something like that, even when it's explained to you clearly. You don't understand it, because you don't know how to understand it. You lack that space in your mind th… Alberto Manguel
“ There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we have made ours through instinct, emotion and understanding: suffered through… Alberto Manguel
“ The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that, when I finally decideto turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've… Alberto Manguel
“ The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret, associate and transform their reading. Alberto Manguel
“ Sartre, in his memoirs, confessed to much the same experience. Like Plato, I passed from knowledge to its subject. I found more reality in the idea than in the thing because it was given to me first a… Alberto Manguel
“ Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding the volumes in my library, my words and my world - except f… Alberto Manguel
“ Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we wi… Alberto Manguel
