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Writer's pictureMia Lee

Proust Questionnaire

In 1890, a teenage Marcel Proust (famous French writer) answered a series of personality questions in a "confessions album" (a popular parlor game at the time). His answers were so poignant the series of questions eventually became known as the "Proust Questionnaire". The magazine Vanity Fair as well as the TV show "Inside the Actors' Studio" has used them to interview celebrities for decades.

 

My Proust Questionnaire


1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

A beautiful day with a rainbow and light drizzle, and everything that could go right did go right


2. What is your greatest fear?

Dying and not being remembered


3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

How unfriendly I am


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

Lying and Backstabbing


5. Which living person do you most admire?

Jieun Lee (IU)


6. What is your greatest extravagance?

My small music album collection (currently still growing)


7. What is your current state of mind?

Questionably Happy


8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Hope and Idealism


9. On what occasion do you lie?

I will only lie if it does more good than the truth, like small white lies, I don’t really like to lie though


10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?

My eyes


11. Which living person do you most despise?

No One


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

Kind, Funny, Caring, Trustworthy


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

Kind, Funny, Trustworthy, There for you


14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Like, Umm, Yea


15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?

Family & Friends


16. When and where were you happiest?

Probably from when I was born till about 7 years old


17. Which talent would you most like to have?

Photographic memory


18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

My Attitude, Voice, Eyes


19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

My Photo and Video Editing Skills


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

A monarch butterfly


21. Where would you most like to live?

Japan, Korea, Paris

22. What is your most treasured possession?

My phone


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

My misery affect other important things in my life


24. What is your favorite occupation?

Someone who’s job brings happiness/betterment to many people’s lives


25. What is your most marked characteristic?

Quiet


26. What do you most value in your friends?

Trust and Care


27. Who are your favorite writers?

None, I will read anything that intrigues me and manages to keep my interest the whole book


28. Who is your hero of fiction?

Black Canary


29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Mahatma Gandhi


30. Who are your heroes in real life?

My mom and dad


31. What are your favorite names?

Taeyeon, Liv, Joy


32. What is it that you most dislike?

Liars/Backstabbers, Hypocrites, Mayo


33. What is your greatest regret?

Trusting the wrong people


34. How would you like to die?

Explosion


35. What is your motto?

When life gives you lemons make lemonade

 

1. The questions I struggled with the most were…

Which historical figure do you most identify with?

What is your motto?

What is your most marked characteristic?


2. The answers I will probably change in 5 years are…(because)...

"What is your greatest extravagance?" because I will have more money.

"What is your current state of mind?" because my mental health will be different.

"What do you consider your greatest achievement?" because I will achieve more.


3. The answers that surprised me the most were….

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

When and where were you happiest?

What do you consider your greatest achievement?


4. The questions I had an instinctual reaction to and could easily answer were...

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

What is your favorite occupation?


5. Expand on one...

If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I want to become a monarch butterfly. Not only are they beautiful creatures, but they are very cool. They can fly very far and are also poisonous to animals that try to eat them. In my next life I would love to be able to fly away to place. Not only would I be able to fly away, but if any animals try to eat me they will not be able to because monarchs are poisonous, but they will also not die which is good. I think being a monarch butterfly would be a very carefree life that I would enjoy.

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