Being with animals.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
Waking up in the morning is as perfect as anything gets.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2021 source ↗
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View all 158 →The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.
My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Being grateful for what you have.
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View profile →The greatest fear I can remember is coming back from WW II and being amazed that I was more afraid to audition for a job than I was flying 52 missions.
Dishonesty and insincerity.
The rare moment I don’t believe in myself enough.
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