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What is your greatest fear?
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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.
Democracy proves to be a Potemkin village and gross inequality becomes our permanent way of life.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2011 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
Figuratively doing nothing.
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