What is your idea of 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.

Recorded Catherine O’Hara said elsewhere, not written here
I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2013 source ↗

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Pelé Brazilian footballer; three-time World Cup winner
I like to spend time with my family, and also relax at my beach house or on my farm.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2014 source ↗
Rafael Nadal Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2010 source ↗
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.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2009 source ↗
Everybody around me is happy, my spirit is right, and just nothing but peace and tranquility in the building.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 January 2022 source ↗

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