Creating something and feeling proud of it.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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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.
Having a bunch of answers and getting to fill in the questions. With loved ones. While in Maui.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 January 2017 source ↗
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Jane Birkin
Singer, songwriter, actor
Christmas with my girls, my brother, my sister, and all the children.
David Lynch
Film director, screenwriter and painter
What do I think it is? A fulfillment of a desire gives you happiness.
Being with my family and kids, on an island, eating and drinking.
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View profile →Entitlement or a lack of manners. Though I find they often flock together.
The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
Wherever I’m sitting, once I finish this questionnaire.
A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
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