Proust Questionnaire: Clarence's answers

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On Thu, 16 Feb 17 22:03:57 UTC Clarence (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be humiliated
Where would you like to live?: When I am old, somewhere quiet and peaceful; While on my youth, somewhere I can change.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be content of myself, reading books where only nature to disturb me in my home.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My human ignorance, it's the most basic.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those whom contain human faults, but rise up to change society. And also Icarus
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Those whom were ambitious in character; and revolution screaming in their hearts, like Lenin and Guevarra.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The women who fought, including its writers. More generally, the ambitious types.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who try not to be too much of a woman but act feminine. Rebellious but tender, ambitious but graceful.
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh, Danilo Danela, Amorsolo, Francisco Goya, Monet.
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Carl Weber.
The quality you most admire in a man?: His passion and ambition combined with charm, intelligence and rebelliousness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Her passion and ambitions, combined with her gentleness, graceful, but manipulative character.
Your favorite virtue?: Virtues that make humanity progress.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, strolling, writing, thinking, and staring into a beautiful view of nature.
Who would you have liked to be?: The Greek philosophers, maybe Plato. Or Nietzsche just to feel and understand his philosophy better
Your most marked characteristic?: Contradictory, bit absent-minded, unsure, passionate, original.
What do you most value in your friends?: Sincerity mostly, loyalty and shared ambitions.
What is your principle defect?: My anxiety, my hesitance and laziness to act. I think more than I should and never get to do anything.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: My parents suffering because they're begging me to be satisfied.
What would you like to be?: The person I admire in history and in fiction.
What is your favorite color?: Natural colors, how they blend and light up in nature like the trees in an afternoon, and the moon on a dark sky.
What is your favorite flower?: The ones that give lighter colors. The humble ones in random fields, not the gorgeous types in gardens.
What is your favorite bird?: Owl and the Raven.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Maybe Orwell and Camus, nothing else comes to mind.
Who are your favorite poets?: Sylvia Plath, Emerson, Wordsworth, Rimbaud---and I think only one poem by Kipling.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My Math teacher, Vladimir Lenin, the rest is in history.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Plath
What are your favorite names?: Valentine and Constantine.
What is it you most dislike?: My weaknesses, and annoying people.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Aaron Burr, Marcos and others whom only live and work for themselves.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Alexander the great's Campaign and, if it can be counted, revolutionary campaigns like in America.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: More ambition and charm, the ability to speak clearly and passionately.
How would you like to die?: Being remembered, left a legacy for society to ponder and built upon.
What is your present state of mind?: Contemplative at my answers, at the same time, being at a rush as I have to go somewhere
What is your motto?: Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam. To live is not merely to breathe, it is to act. I will see the world in my own eyes, and change it.

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