The question
What do you fear most?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.
Losing my mind.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2025 source ↗
Violent death. Death generally.
As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.
Climate change.
To die before I know certain things.
Self-importance.
Being in process on a creative project I love.
Probably as a small child in a pool in my mother’s arms.
Filippo Grandi, United Nations Refugee Agency high commissioner.
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