Proust Questionnaire: Bugsy's answers

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On Tue, 09 Apr 13 01:48:20 UTC Bugsy answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose my family
Where would you like to live?: In a country of my ideal
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be in contact with ones i love and the beauty of nature and everything i hold dear
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: to have to much thought on people of little significance
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Poetic poetry and stories of great telling.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Garibaldi, Kubrick, Literary figures
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman of genius leading an ordinary life
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are more than women without ceasing to be womanly; everything that is tender, poetic, pure and in every way beautiful
Your favorite painter?: gustave dore
Your favorite musician?: peter illyich Tchaikovsky
The quality you most admire in a man?: rationality
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Gentleness, naturalness, intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: All virtues that are not limited to a sect: the universal virtues
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, dreaming, and writing verse
Who would you have liked to be?: Epaminondes
Your most marked characteristic?: Kindness and sincerity
What do you most value in your friends?: Tenderness - provided they possess a physical charm which makes their tenderness worth having
What is your principle defect?: weakness of will.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: never to have picked up a book.
What would you like to be?: Myself
What is your favorite color?: green
What is your favorite flower?: All
What is your favorite bird?: Birds of prey
Who are your favorite prose writers?: thomas Pynchon
Who are your favorite poets?: Milton, Kazantzakis and much more
Who are your heroes in real life?: Werner herzog, paul thomas anderson
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: joan of arc
What are your favorite names?: I only have one at a time
What is it you most dislike?: My own worse qualities
What historical figures do you most despise?: Dictators of the 20th century
What event in military history do you most admire?: Napoleonic era
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To be more patient and bold.
How would you like to die?: A better man than I am, and much beloved
What is your present state of mind?: Accomplished at what i have done so far and the path to the future.
What is your motto?: nothing in life is to be feared only to be understood.

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