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The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2016 source ↗
The question
What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?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.
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Others on this question
View all 158 →Life with no Instagram and no selfies. I am so tired of looking at people staring out of the window of a private plane with a small dog in their laps.
To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
A peaceful, joyous time in the world…or in my head.
Drinks on the deck at sunset.
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Oprah Winfrey. She always does the right thing—even when no one is looking.
I’m disorganized.
It’s a toss-up between mean and petty.
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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