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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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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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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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 demise of the London Daily Mail.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 16 October 2014 source ↗
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Watching my wife and children eat.
Any day spent laughing with friends or family.
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Lack of self-criticism.
Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
Self-criticism.
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