"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest."
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Source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”
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