Proust Questionnaire: Chickpea's answers

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On Wed, 09 Jul 14 05:38:44 UTC Chickpea (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to literally have nothing and no one
Where would you like to live?: London
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: a life filled with culture and to travel with someone i love who loves me
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: when I engage in materialism
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: those who create an ideal that no human being has ever attained but to which we should aspire
Who are your favorite characters in history?: shakespeare, oscar wilde, sylvia plath, germaine greer, leonardo da vinci, Salvador Dali, Antoni Gaudi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: strong, intelligent, successful, charasmatic women
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: those who create an ideal that no human being has ever attained but to which we should aspire
Your favorite painter?: Caravagio
Your favorite musician?: Bob Dylan
The quality you most admire in a man?: kindness, empathy, gentleness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: toughness, resilience, independence
Your favorite virtue?: all virtues are good
Your favorite occupation?: watching films, exploring, sleeping
Who would you have liked to be?: an artist, a trailblazer
Your most marked characteristic?: nurturing
What do you most value in your friends?: supportive
What is your principle defect?: weakness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have been born as I am, in an earlier time
What would you like to be?: a better version of myself
What is your favorite color?: they are all wonderful
What is your favorite flower?: orchids
What is your favorite bird?: all
Who are your favorite prose writers?: too many!
Who are your favorite poets?: Phillip Roth, ee cummings, Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath, W.H Auden
Who are your heroes in real life?: everyday people who do extraordinary things
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: feminists, trailblazers and women who fought the odds
What are your favorite names?: Eden, Edie, Evie, Mika, Julian, Elektra, Nico, Inez
What is it you most dislike?: pain
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: I'm not really a fan of war
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: intelligence and charisma
How would you like to die?: when I am old and in my sleep
What is your present state of mind?: willing and waiting for this week to be over
What is your motto?: always strive to be better; to do, be, see, know, grow and experience more

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