Proust Questionnaire: Carlos A.'s answers

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On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:09:37 UTC Carlos A. (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lead an average life
Where would you like to live?: Lisbon, Madrid or Milan
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Great family, friends and adventure
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To living a life that is beyond my means.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Don Quixote and Lazarillo of Tormes
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Lucrezia Borgia, Marie-Antoinette and the 13th Duchess of Alba
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother and her mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Strong, mysterious, dark and beautiful ones
Your favorite painter?: Correggio
Your favorite musician?: Satie
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, humor and "manliness"
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strength, courage and fiery temper
Your favorite virtue?: Understanding, individualism, creativity and modesty
Your favorite occupation?: Opera singers or ballet dancers
Who would you have liked to be?: Cristobal Balenciaga
Your most marked characteristic?: Needing and striving to be different from what might be considered normal.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty and humor
What is your principle defect?: Not finishing what has been started
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have had a different life than what I did
What would you like to be?: Successful and loved
What is your favorite color?: black
What is your favorite flower?: Blue rose
What is your favorite bird?: The owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Camille Paglia
Who are your favorite poets?: Fernando Pessoa
Who are your heroes in real life?: The ones who did what they wanted to and succeeded
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Eva Peron, Matahari
What are your favorite names?: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish or Romanian names
What is it you most dislike?: The ordinary and mundane
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler and anyone who's harmed anyone else through ignorance
What event in military history do you most admire?: None
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Irresistible charm and will power
How would you like to die?: Old age and doing what I wanted to
What is your present state of mind?: Worry about things to come in the near future
What is your motto?: "Carpe diem"... I didn't come up with it, but I find it's a good way to live.

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