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The young Marcel Proust was asked to fill out questionnaires at two social events: one when he was 13, another when he was 20. Proust did not invent this party game; he was simply the most extraordinary person to respond to them. At the birthday party of Antoinette Felix-Faure, the 13-year-old Marcel was asked to answer fifteen questions in the birthday book. Seven years after the first questionnaire, Proust was asked, at another social event, to fill out another; the questions are much the same, but the answers somewhat different, indicative of his traits at 20. In the back pages of Vanity Fair each month, readers can find The Proust Questionnaire, a closely related set of questions posed to famous subjects about their lives, thoughts, values and experience. This Web site offers you the opportunity to answer the same questions Proust answered and to make your answers known to the world (they will be posted on this Web site).
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(17) losing that person Anna Kalimar (18) to cause the death of the ones you love through betrayal Anne Louise Sheldon (34) Bad Luck Anthony (24) not to have a chance to a better life Anya (22) To lose everything and have no one care enough to help you get it back Anzi (27) The sudden death of a loved one Aoife Walsh Self-destructivness Apos Not to have known better April (20) To end up alone Aranneaa (19) Not having friends. Ash (23) To have never pursued your dreams, and to be stuck in Eugene for your lifetime Ashley Brazil (17) To settle for what's easy or expected instead of risking everything in pursuit of greatness. Ashley Meller (26) To not be where I want to be. I'd end my life. Ashwin Murali (21) to lose my sense of who I am Astrid To go insane Azat Souren Oganesian (27) To live my entire life with out someone knowing me. Bailey (19) not being able to help people Batgirl (23) mum and dad Beatriz (13) To live without love. 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Chiu Jing Hua (17) To be unable to forgive OR forget. Chocolate Bunny (32) To be cursed to a livlihood lacking in contemplation and thought. Chris (16) Never being able to know my daughter. Christina Kronberg (23) Dying alone and depressed Christobel (17) The end of the human race by unnatural causes. Christopher Blaum (37) Never to have faced hardships Christopher James Stagg (16) To never have suffered. Christopher (24) To have never met my husband Cissa Fireheart (32) Losing a child. Clara (20) To be loathed by a person Cody Gould (17) losing family Cookie Never to have had a sister Core (25) To lose my penis. Craig Suga Biles (22) Dying without fulfilling one's life's wishes. Crystal (17) A world without art, without books, without beauty or nature Crystal (32) to regret things I did NOT do, or did NOT try... not to dream D To have never loved yet. D.X (22) To be ignorant & close-minded Dachary (23) To lose a lost one/ to be ill Daisy (27) To never have tried. Damien TC (36) The perpetuation of ignorance resulting in hysteria Dan (29) Evolution failed to occur Dan dying alone with no family Dan (20) Not sure Danae (17) To be born with the capacity for great intellect and to never actualize this aspect of yourself. Dani (31) to have no friends Dani (19) to be away from the ones i love Daniel (25) To never have loved or be loved Daniella (27) Abandonment by my friends and loved ones Davey (18) Never to be able to love or grow beacause of fear. David K (46) Losing my parents before establishing my own family. David Timme (19) Not being saved David (19) To never have been able to be a mother Deb (37) To have given up on love when I had the chance! Debby Creech-West (43) Lose the ones I love Dee (24) to lose a family member Dee (19) to lose my children Delia Webster (80) Not to have discovered my passion for eco-social change Densio (25) to have not known my grandparents Dev Tucker (17) Never raising above odds and remaining a failure... Devon (18) Not having completed researching my family tree. Diana Thomas - English Thursday 6pm (38) To start growing old, rather than growing up Diana (20) Never to have known love Diane (53) To lose respect in myself. Diona (19) Not having been looked upon while asleep by a man in full wonder Dolores Nabokov (26) To be tortured and forget the Comforter that stands withing me. Dominic (17) To never have met the one's I love. Dominick Miller (19) to lose the solidarity of my family. Dori (23) Not to have experienced the excitement, thrill and sense of discovery through travel. Doug Lambert (65) Having missed anything that made me the person I am today. Doug (30) to be too afraid to try Drella (26) To know anymore that furthers the distance I now feel toward every passer-by on the street and those who also carry my surname E.A. Latham (25) To remain stagnant, mentally or emotionally E.Jay (21) the bomb EJ (29) Murder Eden (19) Not to find the path (not the end) Edmond Dantes (26) lose my loved ones Eduardo (19) To be deprived of music and literature and humour. Elena Never to have known my Mum. Eleni Constantinou (20) To not have my twin Elissa (22) To never have known my mother and to have stayed homeschooled rather than switched to public school. Elizabeth To never have learned to read. Ellen to not learn everything that i can learn, to not love to my greatest extent Elyse (20) Never to have known my grandmother/to be taken advantage of/to lose trust in someone Ema (18) If it turned out that Barack Obama was actually just like Bush Emillia (16) to not have a family Emily Clark (25) A memory disorder Emily Harford Barrett To never have known my grandmother before her mind crumpled. 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Jackson8471 (23) Never having an opportunity for greatness JaclynM (19) Loss of a loved one Jaclyn (22) To have been born male, or to have been born meek. For that matter, to have been born both. Jacqueline Garrett (38) Never having met my husband Jamie (25) Not to have been surrounded by encouraging, loving people. Jan to never known the beauty of life, and all the good things that really come with it. Janae (17) To never once be able to see the stars at night. Jared Oswald (19) To leave this earth without having made a mark in it Jay West (27) Not having children Jenn (35) To lose everything, including hope. Jenni Webb Reynolds (29) Not having my son Jennifer C-K (35) To never have known the people I've grown to love to fiercely JennyLynn (23) Have the few I know die and be left alone Jeremy (17) to be paralyzed Jessica (18) The inability to think freely Jeux To live a life that never gave back Jo (41) ? 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Leah (16) To have been deprived of life Leeham Being alone or being just the same. Leena (16) to die without accomplishing anything that I can leave to the world Legacy Lee (31) Being unloved. Leigh Lagamayo (27) to lose those i love, my mother, my father, michele Lem (24) To die having dreamed much but accomplished little LeonidasStokely never to real know where I come from LexieBee (17) same LiamP (25) regret Lily (16) to have my brother die or be very unhappy/ to be barren Linda (23) To do nothing Lint (17) to never have achieved ultimate happiness from within myself Lisa To have become another ditzy, flakey, woman. To have no substance. Liz (28) Not finding the one who groks. LodRose (32) To be the only human Lolita Hazed (18) living in a tiny town Loui Edgington (12) Not to know yourself Louis (19) To lose everything I have Louisalokyee (15) to never have experience. 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Manu (22) To be without the love of others MaraMichelle to not have produced 2 really cool kids Marc_Meyer Not being tight with my family Margot Not know God nor have my family in my life Mari (30) To have been born deaf. Music is an enormous part of who I am. Maria Patenaude (29) poverty Maria (45) not to travel, not to think for yourself, to be waited on hand and foot, to not know what's out there, to be ignorant or close-minded Mariana (16) To have not grown up with my brother. Mark D Anderson (23) To be where I am now Mark (16) see my loved ones being very ill or die Martyshka (31) dying with regret MaryFred (24) To enter middle age as a solitary man Matt (30) to stay in the same place forever Meaghan Not going to uni. or even being smart, and able to have a good conversation, or even being able to talk and have a opinion, and being able to back up what I say. Meebo Not knowing my grandmother Megan (25) To lose my daughter. Or to not deserve my daughter. 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Todd poor or absent parenting Tofu (19) To grow to be a mirror of my parents Tom G (19) Ice in my whiskey Tommy (19) the ability to have all that I have enjoyed in life Tony (48) Inability to change Trisha (17) to never question the answers Trisha (29) To lose my close family. Turtle Heart Ending up in a really bad situation, all b/c of my fault. Valentina (17) Dying Veronica (20) a sudden death with no one to try to save my life Victoria (37) To have fallen to many of the vices which I have seen fell my counterparts of youth. Vijay Pierce (23) To have never made my amends for all the wrongs I have done, and not to have done everything I could at being the best mother possible. 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