Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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 consciousness or awareness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗
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Olivia de Havilland
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The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.
Living a life of regret because of fear.
Dying with a feeling of incompleteness.
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Insensitivity. Indifference about what is right or wrong. Indifference about justice.
To survive from an impossible condition.
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