I honestly don’t have a particular fear. We must live life without limits, and fear can become a limit.
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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.
That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2009 source ↗
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To be eaten by a shark.
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Not getting into heaven.
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View profile →Being totally present and at peace in the moment—and knowing that my children and grandchildren are all right.
My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.
The tendency to withdraw into myself.
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