Success Quote by Marcel Proust

Proust flips a familiar moral warning into a dare. The line starts by granting the accusation - dreaming is "dangerous" - then refuses the usual prescription of discipline and sobriety. Instead, he recommends an overdose. It is the kind of paradox that sounds like consolation until you notice how severe it is: to "dream all the time" is not escapism as vacation, but escapism as vocation, a total commitment to the inner life.

The intent is partly defensive and partly evangelical. Proust spent years turning memory, desire, jealousy, and social performance into a laboratory of perception; his work insists that what we call reality is already filtered, staged, and narrated. In that light, dreaming isn't the opposite of truth. It's a method for catching the truths that ordinary, hurried attention misses. The subtext bites at bourgeois common sense: the people warning you about dreams often mean "stop wanting more than your station permits". Proust's answer is to intensify wanting until it becomes art, insight, or at least honesty.

Context matters: a frail, asthmatic writer living through fin-de-siecle Paris, prestige salons, and the slow unmasking of respectable society. "Dream more" reads like a survival strategy for someone whose real freedom lived in sentences rather than institutions. It's also a critique of moderation as a cultural virtue: if fantasy unsettles you, Proust suggests, the problem isn't the fantasy. It's the cramped life you're trying to protect.