The question

What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

Originally asked

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.

Karl Ove Knausgård

Novelist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
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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Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗
Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 August 2022 source ↗

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