Not being able to work.
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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.
On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2024 source ↗
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That fear becomes too great.
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