In the later 1800s, the confession album was a popular fixture in British culture. The name had nothing to do with people's deepest, darkest secrets, though the "confessions" within were of a somewhat personal and revealing nature. It gained prominence for about fifty years, before falling (well, mostly) out of fashion.

Like so many cultural elements of years bygone, today the confession album has fallen out largely out of usage. It only really survives in two forms: the Proust Questionnaire used for interviews with the famous and distinguished, and in the Netherlands and Germany, books for little kids.

But I see no reason for it to stay that way - self-reflection is a quality just as valuable in adults as well, and celebrities are in the greater scheme of things no more important than the common man. Plus, it's a great way of discovering what kind of person someone is - or at least what kind of person the want to be or think they are.

I've taken the liberty of assembling my own list of questions here, with my answers.¹ Feel free to use it, so long as you provide attribution.

• 1

  Based partially on the Proust Questionnaire, partially on one Karl Marx answered, and a few questions of my own.

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  Of course, excluding people who have done legitimately done horrible things, like serial killers. You could argue that morals are societal, but that's beyond the scope of this.

• 3

  This can be either real or fictional - or both.

• 4

  I'm not a Christian; I just like the quote

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem