Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
What do you value most in your friends?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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.
A love of laughter and a shared belief that life is a dream.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 November 2014 source ↗
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Ina Garten
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That they want to be with me.
Their willingness to have me as a friend.
Sally Field
Actor
That they won’t let me hide.
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People who can’t read my mind.
Stealing from the elderly and then acting real cocky about it.
A good nap and a full house.
Beyoncé/Beyoncé’s hair person.
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