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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.
The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 November 2023 source ↗
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