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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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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.
Being at peace with God.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 November 2001 source ↗
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Danielle Steel
Novelist
Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.
Gayle King
Broadcaster
Close friends, spectacular food, gorgeous weather, and interesting conversation!
Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
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View profile →To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
In Macon, Georgia, during my childhood. I knew everybody there—it was like the whole town was your family. I felt complete there.
Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.
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