A love of laughter and a shared belief that life is a dream.
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Forbearance with my chronic tardiness.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 November 2023 source ↗
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Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
The ability to be themselves rather than hiding behind a mask.
Humor, perspective, and selective honesty.
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View profile →I’m chronically late. It’s magical thinking: I actually believe I can take a shower and get dressed in three minutes, that the train will be pulling into the station the moment I arrive….
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
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