Shadow Killing

Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or killing:

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“The killing of a criminal can be moral—but never its legitimation.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)