A picnic in my garden in Kerdalo, Brittany.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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How would you like to die?
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
It’s not our God-given right to be happy. So, if a man can laugh out loud once or twice a day, that would be happiness.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 December 2015 source ↗
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Sundays in Paris with Jeffrey. We go to the Sunday market, make a nice lunch, drink a big bottle of Burgundy, and then take a long delicious nap. Heaven.
A verdant landscape filled with beautiful animals of all kinds, harp music, cumulus clouds in a bright-blue sky, and happy people conversing pleasantly, sipping cold sake from homemade bamboo cups.
Being with my family and kids, on an island, eating and drinking.
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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
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