Proust Questionnaire

In her book, "Stepping Out of Line"  Nell answers the Proust questionnaire with her own answers as a way of discovering insights into her personality. I am reprinted here the Proust questionnaire with Proust’s answers. (To see Nell’s answer you will have to look into her book.)

This is a questionnaire that allows us to look deep into ourselves and see what resonates with us and what makes us tick. Take a minute to answer the Proust questions, your answers may surprise you and offer some insights into your nest steps, overcoming obstacles, understaning what makes you tick, or just be a reflective exercise helping you get in touch with the inner you.

The Proust Questionnaire

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• 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 Younger 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

• Your favorite painter?

Meissonier

• Your 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

• Your favorite virtue?

All virtues that are not limited to a sect: the universal virtues

• Your 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 Younger

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