Success Quote by Edmond Rostand

Rostand elevates dreaming from a private pastime into a moral aesthetic: the inner vision matters more than the ledger of outcomes. “The dream, alone, is of interest” is a provocation against the bourgeois instinct to prize the measurable: profit, progress, proof. He’s insisting that what animates a life isn’t the neat archive of what happened, but the forward-leaning fiction of what might. The line works because it’s bluntly selective; it doesn’t argue that dreams are helpful, it claims they’re the only thing worth watching. That absolutism is the point. It’s theater, not self-help.

The second sentence tightens the screw with a rhetorical question that quietly shames the reader into agreement. “What is life, without a dream?” doesn’t invite debate so much as it exposes a fear: a life reduced to maintenance, to mere continuation. Subtextually, Rostand is defending a romantic posture in an era increasingly seduced by modernity’s hard edges - industry, bureaucracy, scientific confidence. The dream becomes both refuge and rebellion.

Context matters. Rostand is the playwright-poet of Cyrano de Bergerac, a work obsessed with panache, impossible love, and noble failure. In that world, the dream is not a soft wish; it’s an identity you choose and then protect, even if reality refuses to cooperate. His intent isn’t to deny life’s constraints but to argue that without a self-authored ideal, you’re not living so much as being processed by time.