Being untruthful.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Self-absorption.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗
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That they think they know it all.
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I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.
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