Caroline Lucas: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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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.

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Caroline Lucas

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Being on my deathbed and realising I’d forgotten to treat each day as the miracle that it is.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

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To be stuck in the past.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗

Figuratively doing nothing.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Mary Tyler Moore

That I’ll never work again.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2012 source ↗

Dying with a feeling of incompleteness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2013 source ↗

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Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

For making a difference.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

I very often set my heart on things – and if they don’t happen, I’m not great at dealing with disappointment.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question What lesson has mattered most in your life? Time & hindsight

People remember how you make them feel more than they remember what you say or do.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

Picnicking on the Downs with my family and dog – birds singing, sea sparkling, and mobile switched very firmly off.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

Question What accomplishment matters most to you? Craft & work

Winning the first Green seat in parliament – although that’s cheating, really, as it was very much a collective achievement by the whole party.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

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