Proust Questionnaire from Vanity Fair

Love these questionnaires. This one is the Proust Questionnaire from Vanity Fair.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Relaxing with small group of close friends.

2. What is your greatest fear?
Prolonged unhappiness.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
That I don't do a fraction of what I could do.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Being unreliable.

5. Which living person do you most admire?
Family.

6. What is your greatest extravagance?
Guitars.

7. What is your current state of mind?
Post breakup sadness and regret.

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?


9. On what occasion do you lie?
When the truth will do more harm than good.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Looking too thin despite being the right weight.

11. Which living person do you most despise?
Anyone who oppresses others.

12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Loyalty.

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Ssense of humour.

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
maybe, fuck

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
after my family, she knows.

16. When and where were you happiest?
in the honeymoon phase of a new relationship.

17. Which talent would you most like to have?
Dedication.

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Where to start? Lack of confidence?

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Playing in a band.

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A happier person.

21. Where would you most like to live?
A vibrant creative happy city.

22. What is your most treasured possession?
My second guitar (£80 no name strat copy).

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Loneliness.

24. What is your favorite occupation?
A colborative musician

25. What is your most marked characteristic?
Sense of humour?

26. What do you most value in your friends?
Generosity.

27. Who are your favorite writers?
Stephen King, Stephen Hunter, Thomas Harris

28. Who is your hero of fiction?


29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?


30. Who are your heroes in real life?
Musicians.

31. What are your favorite names?
Zoe, Sara

32. What is it that you most dislike?
Wasting money.

33. What is your greatest regret?
Ha!

34. How would you like to die?
Happy.

35. What is your motto?