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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Deborah Divine.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2019 source ↗
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My wife. She is the most beautiful person I know in every way and has an endless energy for other people that a vinegary old misanthrope like myself can only marvel at.
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Irish singer-songwriter
Myself – why not?
Alison Goldfrapp
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Anyone who is a carer.
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