Forbearance with my chronic tardiness.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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When were you happiest?
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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 sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 January 2017 source ↗
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That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
Their responsibility to the friendship.
They want to leave the party the same time I do.
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Having a bunch of answers and getting to fill in the questions. With loved ones. While in Maui.
Either living up to or not living up to my potential.
The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
Wherever I’m sitting, once I finish this questionnaire.
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