The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
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.
Floating in a river full of fat trout.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 November 2020 source ↗
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View all 158 →I’m walking down the street angrily muttering to myself and then I run into a neighbor or former coworker and they catch me in this moment of private-public expression. It’s nice to be seen sometimes.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
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I'm a happy guy in general, but the feeling of freedom and fun I got driving around with my friends in my first car is hard to top.
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