Alberto Manguel Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

  Alberto Manguel

  Giving, Library, Matter

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.121, Vintage Canada

• I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

  Alberto Manguel

  Mother, Attachment, Giving

• I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

  Alberto Manguel

  Giving Up, Memories, Book

  Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.305, Penguin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin