Child, loss or damage thereof.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗
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Unemployment – I’m an actor.
Losing track (see above).
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Nineteen thirty-nine. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Station WOOD, 20 bucks a week.
Self-absorption.
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