The question

What do you fear most?

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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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Naming my greatest fear, because then I’ll have to admit it, won’t I?
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2024 source ↗
Ina Garten Cookery writer and shop owner
Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2016 source ↗
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2023 source ↗

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