Honesty, trustworthiness, and a deep understanding of emotions.
What do you value most in your friends?
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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?
Values & belief
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2013 source ↗
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View all 65 →Kindness and laughter. If someone makes me laugh, I’m halfway in love.
A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
Honesty. Tell me the truth, even if it hurts.
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View profile →False humility.
Anyone who can laugh at themselves.
Flirting with danger.
At the altar all seven times.
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