Proust Questionnaire: Adrian Bauza's answers

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On Tue, 18 Dec 12 04:10:01 UTC Adrian Bauza (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Losing the ability to love, thus losing the ability to create and appreciate.
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere secluded enough to be at peace, but close enough to people not to lose the grasp of humanity.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Whatever my spiritual desires mandate at the moment.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The extreme of self-isolation.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Hard to say by name, but I like heroes who stand for ideas, those who aren't necessarily relatable, but actually drive the plot towards what it's intended.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: The ones who aren't functional devices but givers of actual food for thought.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who bypass ridiculous labels of womanhood and seek understanding of their humanity instead.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who aren't "strong female characters", but simply characters. I like to see virtues and flaws, roughness and tenderness, laughter and tears. Pretty much the same I look for on male characters.
Your favorite painter?: Kandinsky, Goya, Bacon, Gaugin. Too many to mention, but those are definitely top.
Your favorite musician?: The first human to ever come up with music. Without them, Miles Davis, Brian Eno and Justin Broadrick would be just names.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Compassion, curiosity, humanity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Compassion, curiosity, humanity.
Your favorite virtue?: Inborn virtues. Inquisitiveness being my favourite.
Your favorite occupation?: Living, which takes me to reading, writing, observing, studying, consequently making me full of awe.
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself.
Your most marked characteristic?: Honesty and my perennial search for knowledge.
What do you most value in your friends?: Probity and warmth.
What is your principle defect?: Obsessiveness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Not being surprised by anything anymore.
What would you like to be?: Myself, but better.
What is your favorite color?: All shades of green.
What is your favorite flower?: Forget-me-nots.
What is your favorite bird?: Snowy owl.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Steinbeck, Tolstoy, Kerouac, Thoreau, Borges, Valle-Inclán, Camus, DFW, Pynchon, Eugenides. Too many to name.
Who are your favorite poets?: Frost, Cummings, Yeats, Bukowski, Ginsberg. Again, too many to name.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My parents
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Madame Curie.
What are your favorite names?: Anything but my middle name.
What is it you most dislike?: Platitude.
What historical figures do you most despise?: El Ché, Marx, Kropotkin, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Lenin, Engels, et cetera.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Anytime when bullets are no longer fired.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm.
How would you like to die?: Wise and loved.
What is your present state of mind?: Some kind of tense peace.
What is your motto?: Be enlightened.

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