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 — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
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 — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
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 — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
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 — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
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 — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
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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.

— Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
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