Honesty. Tell me the truth, even if it hurts.
What do you value most in your friends?
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When were you happiest?
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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
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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.
Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗
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View all 65 →I like all my friends for different reasons, so it’s hard to pick one quality I value most highly overall.
Sally Field
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That they won’t let me hide.
Eugene Levy
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Knowing they are there for you.
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View profile →On a beach, watching my girls do cartwheels, with a Goombay Smash with a floater on top.
Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!
Gloria Steinem.
Drowning. The feeling of not being able to take a breath. I’m sure my therapist would have something to say about the deep psychological reasons for it.
I would erase my fear of dying, but I suppose that would be erasing some of my human condition.
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