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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

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Lena Dunham
Unmade bed surrounded by books, writing utensils, and the dog; a plate of demolished toast with butter on my chest; loved ones puttering not too close but not too far.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 September 2014 source ↗
Karl Ove Knausgård Novelist
Being together with the ones I love on a Wednesday afternoon, washing the dishes, taking the garbage to the bin under a gray sky, hearing the distant sounds of children from upstairs, turning around and suddenly looking into the eyes of the one I love. It is the feeling of being alive I’m talking about. And of being in love.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 29 December 2017 source ↗
Alice Waters Chef, restaurateur and food activist
Shopping at the organic farmers market, buying whatever’s in season that looks the ripest and most vibrant, and bringing it home to cook with my friends.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 July 2021 source ↗

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