Proust Questionnaire: Benjamin Thomas's answers

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On Tue, 12 Jan 16 09:59:46 UTC Benjamin Thomas answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Unallayable guilt
Where would you like to live?: Wherever I am, which is more difficult to achieve the longer one lives
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To rejoice in the sacrifices of love, precisely because they hurt
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Screening out the world, acting on brute impulses
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Noriko, Aleksander, Alyosha
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Jeanne la pucelle, Kierkegaard, Socrates
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My closest friend
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Noriko, Marie, Otoku, Sandra
Your favorite painter?: Velazquez or Goya
Your favorite musician?: D'Angelo
The quality you most admire in a man?: Empathy, moral sense, love properly understood
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Empathy, moral sense, love properly understood
Your favorite virtue?: Sacrifice
Your favorite occupation?: Dreaming, cinema, reading
Who would you have liked to be?: Andrei Tarkovsky, or Ozu
Your most marked characteristic?: Superficial charm
What do you most value in your friends?: Empathy
What is your principle defect?: Pride, poor self-control
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Eternal recurrence of a selfish life
What would you like to be?: Invisible, and infinitely kind
What is your favorite color?: Black, containing all the others
What is your favorite flower?: Couldn't say— have never thought about it
What is your favorite bird?: Owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Dostoevsky, Kafka, Lydia Davis
Who are your favorite poets?: Elliot, William Carlos Williams
Who are your heroes in real life?: My closest friend, Ozu, Sirk
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Jeanne la pucelle, Chantal Akerman, Hannah Arendt
What are your favorite names?: Julien, Nur
What is it you most dislike?: Myself, for begrudging others of themselves
What historical figures do you most despise?: Theodore Roosevelt, Bibi Netanyahu
What event in military history do you most admire?: The evacuation of refugees from Saigon
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Patience and self-control
How would you like to die?: Having made right all who I've harmed
What is your present state of mind?: Worry, about posturing/preening
What is your motto?: I haven't one— it's an invitation to bad behavior

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