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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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.
I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗
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Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
Yeah. I’m the luckiest person who ever lived, you know? I worked hard, like a demon. Some would say too hard from time to time, and I over-married, and I had a magnificent child. I have been incredibly fortunate, but I had the American Dream, and it didn’t matter to anybody that nobody in my family had ever been to college.
These days, it’s good health and peace.
First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.
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Ricky Gervais. I’m saying that so he might read this and cast me in something.
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