Proust Questionnaire: Anthony's answers

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On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:37:46 UTC Anthony (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Uncertainty.
Where would you like to live?: A sweet little neighborhood with someone I love.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Food, labor, love, and laughter.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Weakness of will.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (War and Peace), Bubbles (The Wire), Jules (Jules and Jim).
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Abraham Lincoln, George Orwell.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Anna Politikoskaya, Virginia Woolf, my Abuelita.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Kate Gompert (Infinite Jest)
Your favorite painter?: Rene Magritte.
Your favorite musician?: Neil Young.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Curosity, Openness, Intelligence, Athletic Ability.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Kindness, Curosity, Intelligence, Openness, a love of me, a love of things of beauty.
Your favorite virtue?: Humility.
Your favorite occupation?: Playing.
Who would you have liked to be?: This friend of Camus's I read about in "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death". This man is someone who loved poetry and literature. It sounds like he lived a good, honest life. Camus loved him. He was killed during the Resistance.
Your most marked characteristic?: A willingness to play.
What do you most value in your friends?: Closeness.
What is your principle defect?: Lack of understanding; weakness of will
What would you like to be?: Infinite love.
What is your favorite color?: Golden hour.
What is your favorite flower?: The one nearest to me.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My brother, my cousin, my best friend.
What are your favorite names?: August, Anthony, Alexander.
What is it you most dislike?: Wasted time with ugly people.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Too many to name and to know.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The ones where the powerless defeat the powerful.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power and irrestible charm.
How would you like to die?: Slowly; while laying in bed; not too much pain; my wife by my side.
What is your present state of mind?: Tired. Concerned about finding work.
What is your motto?: Depends on the day.

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