The very short instant right after accomplishing something very challenging.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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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.
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Being together with the ones I love on a Wednesday afternoon, washing the dishes, taking the garbage to the bin under a gray sky, hearing the distant sounds of children from upstairs, turning around and suddenly looking into the eyes of the one I love. It is the feeling of being alive I’m talking about. And of being in love.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 29 December 2017 source ↗
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