Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
What is your greatest fear?
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When were you happiest?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
Pain of any sort.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2008 source ↗
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That fear becomes too great.
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