Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
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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 never going to be absolutely perfect. There will always be something you would change if you could.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2003 source ↗
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Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Reading quietly, in high grass, among loved ones (who are also quietly reading). Followed by a boozy lunch.
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.
Being at one with yourself.
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Right here, right now.
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