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A history of reading (1996)
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From its very start, reading is writings apotheosis.
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Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
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As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
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Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
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We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
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Alberto Manguel
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1948
(age 76)
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