A free day anywhere with a good dog.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Originally asked
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The demise of the London Daily Mail.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 16 October 2014 source ↗
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What do I think it is? A fulfillment of a desire gives you happiness.
The very short instant right after accomplishing something very challenging.
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There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
Self-criticism.
Lack of self-criticism.
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