The Circular Ruins Quotes

“He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins

“In the dreaming man's dream, the dreamed man awoke.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins

“To be not a man, but the projection of another man's dream- what incomparable humiliation, what vertigo!”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins

“He dreamt a complete man, a youth, but this youth could not rise nor did he speak nor could he open his eyes. Night after night, the man dreamt him as asleep.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins