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Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night Quotes: I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
         

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.


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I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
         



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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 order.



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Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.



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Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.



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If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.



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