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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 I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2014 source ↗
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To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.
Pain of any sort.
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A good nap and a full house.
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