Proust Questionnaire: Alex's answers

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On Thu, 22 Jul 10 17:29:24 UTC Alex answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To give up my principles.
Where would you like to live?: Paradise (that would be a place with a lot of peace and quiet, prefferably not very populated).
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be able to understand myself and other people.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To naivity.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Recently my favorite hero of fiction is Jesus from Jose Saramago's novel (not the one in the Bible).
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Perhaps General Mannerheim.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who don't claim to be men, yet outsmart them.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Blanche and Marie, in Per Olov Enquist's novel.
Your favorite painter?: At the moment, let's say Edvard Munch.
Your favorite musician?: At the moment, let's say Spiritual Front.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humbleness and intelligence.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Humbleness and intelligence.
Your favorite virtue?: Purity.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, writing.
Who would you have liked to be?: Grigori Perelman.
Your most marked characteristic?: Lack of self-confidence.
What do you most value in your friends?: If I'd have any, I'd value their unconditional acceptance.
What is your principle defect?: Self-centeredness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To kill myself.
What would you like to be?: A ghost (but only sometimes).
What is your favorite color?: Blue.
What is your favorite flower?: Lilies and lilac.
What is your favorite bird?: Colibri.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: At the moment, Jose Saramago is on top.
Who are your favorite poets?: Too many... But let's say Georg Heim and Paul Eluard.
Who are your heroes in real life?: I have none.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie Curie.
What are your favorite names?: Franz.
What is it you most dislike?: Fanatism.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Constantine the Great.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Pyrrhus's victory? None, actually.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Genius.
How would you like to die?: Knowing everything I was able to find out during my short, human life.
What is your present state of mind?: Anxious.
What is your motto?: I have many. One of them is Nietzsche's "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. "

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