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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Cruelty…no, maybe dishonesty or disingenuousness. All are equally deplorable.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2020 source ↗
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Discrimination, for any reason.
Those who create the doom.
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View profile →The desire to please. It’s a losing battle.
Is there such a thing? I guess, for me, it’s really about life’s special moments, large and small.
Those who put others first.
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