A picnic in my garden in Kerdalo, Brittany.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
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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.
Monogamy, with the right lady. (Sheer luck.)
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2012 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 158 →Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
Contentment with what I have.
Cuddling in bed on a Sunday morning with the man I love. Also, applause and standing ovations.
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View profile →Taking myself seriously, even in a Vanity Fair quiz.
At age 97 and counting, guess.
Anywhere with her, while she lived.
Complacent stupidity.
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