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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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When were you happiest?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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 entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 158 →Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
Lily Tomlin
Comedian and actor
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
Being at one with yourself.
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View profile →The inability to listen.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
I can be pedantic at times.
Being able to share a confidence.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
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