Quotes of Alberto Manguel

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Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

- Alberto Manguel

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- Friedrich Nietzsche

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- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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- Gerard Way

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- Oscar Wilde

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