The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
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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.
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Reading a book with a dog asleep on either side of me.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 August 2018 source ↗
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Watching my wife and children eat.
Warm chocolate cake, a gorgeous fire, and Idris Elba. Also, world peace.
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Willful ignorance.
Driving solo across the country from New York to Washington State.
That it takes a week for someone to discover my body.
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