Not having the people I love around me.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
I’m a very fearless person.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗
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I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
Losing one of my children, as there is no greater loss.
Pain of any sort.
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I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
A verdant landscape filled with beautiful animals of all kinds, harp music, cumulus clouds in a bright-blue sky, and happy people conversing pleasantly, sipping cold sake from homemade bamboo cups.
Indecision and wishy-washiness.
Any type of indecision.
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