Christopher Unborn Quotes

“The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Christopher Unborn

“Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Christopher Unborn

“Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Christopher Unborn

“(in the Cratylus my mother reads, names are either intrinsic or conventional, or does an onomastic legislator give them out?)”
― Carlos Fuentes, Christopher Unborn

“C'est une flamme glacée, une glace brûlante,
Une blessure indolore et béante,
Un bien rêvé, un mal présent,
Un bref repos très épuisant,
C'est une liberté emprisonnée”
― Carlos Fuentes, Christopher Unborn

“Dünya, birileri anlatınca cennet, kendin yaşayınca cehennem.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Doğmamış Kristof