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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
At age 97 and counting, guess.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2012 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →Losing consciousness or awareness.
To be abandoned.
Johnny Flynn
British actor and musician
I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.
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View profile →Anywhere with her, while she lived.
Complacent stupidity.
Taking myself seriously, even in a Vanity Fair quiz.
Monogamy, with the right lady. (Sheer luck.)
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