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“Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.”

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Alberto Manguel, born in 1948, is a renowned writer from Argentina. His works span various literary forms, including novels, essays, and translations, and are known for their unique style and profound insights into human culture. more

“The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.”

Ifs Book Stories Space Watches Study Objects Wall Illusion Reflection Affection Chosen Owners Echoes Desks Shelves Visitors Selected

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.”

Ifs Found Magic Reader Pages Possession Secure Charm Immaculate

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.”

Feels Sometimes States Nations United United States Depression Prozac Prozac Nation

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.”

Wells Doe Important Book Reading Given Common Accepting Dangerous Accepted Our Society Efficiency Common Good Subversive Pastime

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.”

Years Helping Common Technology Virtue Losing Built Sake Delight Vocabulary New Technology

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“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 certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.”

May Book Beautiful Suffering Evil Common Fate Possibility Protect Graves Grants Shields Illumination Possibility Of Change

Author:Alberto Manguel

“As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.”

Government Care Secret Principles Gone Reader Skills Skins Financial Profit Crafts Granted Jealous Efficiency Subordinates Mindless

Author:Alberto Manguel

“If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.”

Ifs May Faces Justice Divinity Capricious

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Evil requires no reason.”

Reason Evil No Reason

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Darkness promotes speech.”

Darkness Speech

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

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