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Proust Questionnaire
1.
What do you
regard as the lowest depth of misery?
2.
Where would
you like to live?
3.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
4.
To what faults
do you feel most indulgent?
5.
Who are your
favorite heroes of fiction?
6.
Who are your
favorite characters in history?
7.
Who are your
favorite heroines in real life?
8.
Who are your
favorite heroines of fiction?
9.
Y
our favorite painter?
10.
Y
our favorite musician?
11.
The quality
you most admire in a man?
12.
The quality
you most admire in a woman?
13.
Y
our favorite virtue?
14.
Y
our favorite occupation?
15.
Who would you
have liked to be?
16.
Y
our most marked
characteristic?
17.
What do you most value in your friends?
18.
What is your
principle defect?
19.
What is your favorite occupation?
20.
What is your
dream of happiness?
21.
What to your mind would be the greatest
of misfortunes?
22.
What would you like to be?
23.
What is your
favorite color?
24.
What is your favorite flower?
25.
What is your
favorite bird?
26.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
27.
Who are your
favoite poets?
28.
Who are your favorite composers?
29.
Who are your
heroes in real life?
30.
What are your favorite names?
31.
What is it you most dislike?
32.
What
historical figures do you most despise?
33.
What event in
military history do you most admire?
34.
What reform
do you most admire?
35.
What natural gift would you most like
to possess?
36.
How would you like to die?
37.
What is your
present state of mind?
38.
What is your motto?
The Infamous Proust Questionnaire
In
the
back
pages
of
V
anity
Fair
each
month,
readers
find
The
Proust
Questionnaire, a
series of questions posed to famous subjects about
their
lives, thoughts, values and
experience.
The
young
Marcel
was
asked
to
fill
out
questionnaires
at
two
social
events:
one
when
he
was
13,
another
when
he
was
20.
Proust
did
not
invent
this
party
game;
he
is
simply
the
most
extraordinary
person
to
respond
to
them.
At
the
birthday
party
of
Antoinette
Felix-Faure,
the
13-year-old
Marcel
was
asked
to
answer
the
following
questions
in
the
birthday
book, and here's what he said:
What do you regard as the lowest depth
of misery?
To be separated from Mama
Where would you like to live?
In the country of the Ideal, or,
rather, of my ideal
What is your idea
of earthly happiness?
To live
in contact with those I love, with the
beauties of nature, with a
quantity of
books and music, and to have, within easy
distance, a French
theater
To what faults do you feel most
indulgent?
To a life deprived of the
works of genius
Who are your
favorite heroes of fiction?
Those of
romance and poetry, those who are the expression
of an
ideal
rather than an
imitation of the real
Who are your
favorite characters in history?
A
mixture
of
Socrates,
Pericles,
Mahomet,
Pliny
the
Y
ounger
and
Augustin Thierry
Who are your favorite heroines in real
life?
A woman of genius leading an
ordinary life
Who are your favorite
heroines of fiction?
Those
who
are
more
than
women
without
ceasing
to
be
womanly;
everything that is tender, poetic, pure
and in every way beautiful
Y
our favorite painter?
Meissonier
Y
our
favorite musician?
Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence, moral sense
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Gentleness, naturalness, intelligence
Y
our favorite virtue?
All virtues that are not limited to a
sect: the universal virtues
Y
our favorite occupation?
Reading, dreaming, and writing verse
Who would you have liked to be?
Since the question does not arise, I
prefer not to answer it. All the same, I
should very much have liked to be Pliny
the Y
ounger.
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