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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
Making trails and building a tree house.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 March 2015 source ↗
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View all 158 →First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.
A taco truck on every corner.
To be wildly, desperately, carelessly, nakedly in love, of course. Crazy, obsessive love: brooding, baying at the moon, writing daily missives to the adored. Who wouldn’t want this? Even though the crash is painful.
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View profile →Chuck Feeney (the James Bond of philanthropy).
Playing catch with my son Noah at Fenway Park.
Lack of purpose.
An arbitrary contrarian.
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