Alberto Manguel - Darkness Quotes

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In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

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Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.

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