Proust's Questionnaire (1998)
| What is your idea of the perfect happiness? | To love and to be loved |
| What is your dream of happiness? | To have a child |
| What do you consider your greatest achievement? | Having married the man I love |
| What do you consider the most overrated virtue? | Tolerance |
| Which living person do you most admire? | My mother |
| What is your greatest extravagance? | My shopping sprees |
| What do you dislike most about your appearance? | My nose |
| Which words or phrases do you most overuse? | Great! |
| What are your favourite names? | Mon amour, ma pichounette (my love, my pichounette) |
| What is your greatest regret? | I try to have hopes instead of regrets |
| What would be your biggest misfortune? | To lose people I love |
| What would you like to be? | A mother |
| What or who is the greatest love of your life? | My husband |
| When and where were you the happiest? | Probably the day of my wedding |
| What is your favourite journey? | The one that takes me home |
| What is the country where you would wish to live? | The one from I come |
| What is your most treasured possession? | My family |
| What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? | Children suffering |
| What is your favourite occupation? | Playing golf |
| What is your main bad quality? | I am susceptible and I have bad character in the morning |
| What is your most marked characteristic? | Sense of humor, I love to laugh; tenacity |
| What is the quality which you wish in a man? | Sincerity |
| What is the quality which you prefer in a woman? | Generosity |
| What do you most value in your friends? | Sincerity and humor; disinterestedness |
| What is the colour which you prefer? | Black |
| What is the flower which you like? | Gardenia |
| What bird do you prefer? | Les oiseaux du bonheur (the birds of happiness) |
| What are your favorite composers? | Those who write for me, and Mozart, and Chopin, and Bach |
| What are your favourite painters? | Monet, Sisley |
| What is your favourite hero in fiction? | Superman |
| What are your heroes in the real life? | My parents |
| What is that you most dislike? | Violence |
| What are the characters that you most dislike? | Hypocrisy |
| What gift of the nature would you like to have? | Quack |
| What is the present state of your spirit? | Loving |
| What are the faults which inspire you most indulgence? | The spelling mistakes |
| How would you like to die? | In my sleep |
| If you could choose in what you would re-be embodied, what you would be? | Myself again |
| What is your motto? | All the way |
This questionnaire is extracted from the book of Let's Talk About Love Tour ( 1998 ). A part is in English, the other one in French but bizarrely they do not correspond totally. Maybe to please, according to their expectations, to the English-speaking and to the French-speaking.
