It’s a toss-up between a tarantula crawling on me and dying alone.
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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.
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That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2009 source ↗
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Having no purpose.
Regrets. That’s no way to live.
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