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What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
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Living a life of regret because of fear.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2016 source ↗
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Racism and bigotry.
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