And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave, ' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us - the recognition of something we never knew was there, or of something we vaguely felt as a flicker or a shadow, whose ghostly form rises and passes back into us before we can see what it is, leaving us older and wiser. Alberto Manguel
About This Quote

After reading some of these quotes that I've shared with you, I think it is possible to interpret the meaning more than one way. For example, sometimes words are used in an ironic way to make a point about human behavior. A quote like “I love you more than the distance between the stars” can be read as a means of making fun of long-distance relationships or of saying that you have no interest in being anywhere but right where you are. On the other hand, one might also take the idea of “rising every time we fall” literally. Perhaps there is something to be learned from others who have fallen before us and who have risen again, defeated but wiser.

Source: A History Of Reading

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