Proust Questionnaire: Cameron Harvey's answers

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On Sun, 08 Jan 17 19:48:56 UTC Cameron Harvey (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be all alone
Where would you like to live?: In a place of culture but not one far from nature
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A sense of community with you fellow man and nature
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The faults of instant gratification
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who, though the world wears down upon them, strive to reach a greater idea of themselves, like Jean Valjean
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Lincoln, Marcus Aurelius,
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother for taking pleasure in the little things
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Eponine
Your favorite painter?: Dali
Your favorite musician?: Wagner
The quality you most admire in a man?: Self-discipine
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A desire to be gentle, intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Integrity
Your favorite occupation?: Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: Right now probably Buster Keaton
Your most marked characteristic?: A desire to make people laugh or feel loved
What do you most value in your friends?: Patience and
What is your principle defect?: A lack of self-discipline
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have failed and never asked why
What would you like to be?: The version of myself I see in my dreams
What is your favorite color?: The blue, purple, and orange of sunset
What is your favorite flower?: Indian Paintbrush, Sunflower
What is your favorite bird?: Eagle
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hemingway, Shakespeare
Who are your favorite poets?: Whitman
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father,
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eleanor Roosevelt
What are your favorite names?: Hard to pick more than one
What is it you most dislike?: My own sense of complaceny
What historical figures do you most despise?: Neville Chamberlain
What event in military history do you most admire?: The D-Day landings of Normandy
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Drive
How would you like to die?: Having improved
What is your present state of mind?: Perturbed that I'm being so introspective on a Sunday morning
What is your motto?: It's a shame she won't live, but then again who does?

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