THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

has its origins in a parlor game popularized by Marcel Proust, the French essayist, and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. This is Nana

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1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?  
   Peace and Harmony

2. What is your greatest fear?
   Chaos and unpleasant sounds.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
   I have no idea.

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

5. Which living person do you most admire?
   Many, but my mother the most.

6. What is your greatest extravagance?
   Wanting to be even more extravagant.

7. What is your current state of mind?
   Acute awareness.

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
   I don’t know. 

9. On what occasion do you lie?
   Not to hurt people needlessly.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
    Too critical to define.

11. Which living person do you most despise?
    Putin

12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
    Having a character, originality, and depth.

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

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
    Maybe “great”.

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
    Sandro, my husband.

16. When and where were you happiest?
    When I travel.

17. Which talent would you most like to have?
    Knowing more languages than three.

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

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
    Having my two sons and saving my sister’s life.

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
    A beautiful cypress tree overlooking the ocean.

21. Where would you most like to live?
    Italy.

22. What is your most treasured possession?
    My family.

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

24. What is your favorite occupation?
    Being an artist is my favorite occupation.

25. What is your most marked characteristic?
    Flexibility.

26. What do you most value in your friends?  
    I want to constantly learn from them.

27. Who are your favorite writers?
    Goethe, Tolstoy, Hesse, Mann.

28. Who is your hero of fiction?
    Joseph, from Thomas Mann’s “Joseph and his brothers”.

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Akhenaten. 

30. Who are your heroes in real life?
    My husband.

31. What are your favorite names?
    Nicholas, David, Luka, and Sandro.

32. What is it that you most dislike?
    Unpleasant sounds.

33. What is your greatest regret?
    Many and None at the same time.

34. How would you like to die?
    Surrounded by my children and grandchildren.

35. What is your motto? 
    Be kind and try to leave the Beauty as your footprint.