Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.

Walter Benjamin
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  1. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Unknown

  2. By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness - Pablo Neruda

  3. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very... - E.m. Forster

  4. How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole - C.g. Jung

  5. I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don't want it to win. - Jasmine Warga

More Quotes By Walter Benjamin
  1. The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  2. Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  3. Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

  4. Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  5. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

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