So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's. - Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time Quotes)

So long as I know what’s boiling in my pot I don’t bother my head about what’s in other people’s.[Du moment que je sais ce qui cuit dans ma marmite, je ne m’occupe pas de celle des autres.]

Source:Part I, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way (1920/1921)
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