Forbidden Months

Famous quotes containing the words forbidden and/or months:

“That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)

“And do not pity C. Q. One had to choose between him and H. H., and one wanted H. H. to exist at least a couple of months longer, so as to have him make you live in the minds of later generations. I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)