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On Tue, 19 Apr 16 11:07:25 UTC Adrian (18) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To inflict the pains and hardships you have experienced on others.
Where would you like to live?
High enough up to see everything, and hear nothing.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Seeing the truth in everything and not being afraid.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Self-loathing, pity, and kindness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Fiction is only ideal if it can take you away from what surrounds you. Only characters of stout belief and intrinsic allure are worth anything. Poetry is not appreciated by everyone, beauty is in simplicity:simple is understandable.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Spartacus, Vlad the Impaler, and anyone who remotely makes me feel anything when I learn of them.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
A person lacking hypocrisy,and when they ask a question they care to listen and are not driven away by the things they thought they wouldn't hear.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
I'd rather not read about female heroes because modern romance is sickening and fake to me. Female characters are best focalized when in conjunction with a male role. They are not irrelevant just overbearing.
Your favorite painter?
Albrecht Altdorfer
Your favorite musician?
Hah! That's funny. Music is not so simple as favorite and not favorite. Preference switches with mood and I use music not to escape the emotion but to feel it deeper. When I am sad I use music to feel the depths of my sadness, I like to go numb.
The quality you most admire in a man?
Honesty, sincerity, not embarrassed to tell people what he does when no one is watching.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
I agree with Proust, but beauty and and curiosity don't hurt
Your favorite virtue?
Meh. If you make me happy screw virtues I am gonna keep you.
Your favorite occupation?
I am starting to like this Proust guy. The only difference is that I dream to escape, and I like prose not verse.
Who would you have liked to be?
I am enamored with wealth. Endless money is happiness to me. I would want to be a modern day Mansa Musa
Your most marked characteristic?
Not knowing who I am do to my dissociative tendencies
What do you most value in your friends?
Forthright, adventure seekers, with the ability to push off the pain they feel, and regardless of the pressures around them their personality retains shape.
What is your principle defect?
Weak will, self-pity, and loathing
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Not having a sanctuary to escape to.
What would you like to be?
Someone self-motivated whom never had a hard life and would never have to struggle.
What is your favorite color?
Blue(Dark), Black, White, and Red. They match and aren't bright, bright colors sicken me.
What is your favorite flower?
Black Velvet Petunia
What is your favorite bird?
Humming bird
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Patrick Rothfuss
Who are your favorite poets?
Galway Kinnell or Dante Alighieri
Who are your heroes in real life?
Ben, and Ashley
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
N/A
What are your favorite names?
Caramel
What is it you most dislike?
Myself as a whole
What historical figures do you most despise?
Obviously Hitler I mean who doesn't but ignorant Neo-Nazis
What event in military history do you most admire?
Any instance of imperialism, take as much as you can in the little time you have.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Perfection, fate being with me.
How would you like to die?
Before those I love.
What is your present state of mind?
Sad, and introspective.
What is your motto?
Fuck it! Say it now or you will regret it later.

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