Proust Questionnaire: Dimitar Atanasov's answers

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On Tue, 09 Feb 16 19:05:17 UTC Dimitar Atanasov (25) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being completely alone, with no family and other people, to love yourself and by yourself.
Where would you like to live?: Wherever I am content and do not strive to change something or prove myself to myself and others.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Being able to read the books I love, watch the series I love, as well as be able to know the outcome of my actions before I take them.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To focus too much on myself.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who through adversity and hardship are reborn, such as Edmond Dantès or those such as Count Mishkin who through good intention ruin themselves for others.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Pitaghoras, Vasil Levski, Aristotle, Caeser.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those that realise that in weakness, true strength hides and that you do need another's approval or assistance to be complete.
Your favorite painter?: Paul Cézanne.
Your favorite musician?: Antonín Dvořák.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, integrity, sense of justice.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, confidence, willpower.
Your favorite virtue?: Mercy and Love, even towards those who show neither.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, thinking, a conversation with a person, be it a close friend, family member or somebody who you are just getting to know.
Who would you have liked to be?: I would like to be myself, but the version I believe I can become.
Your most marked characteristic?: To give all of myself to help others and give my love freely, but I do feel the urge to be loved back.
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty, intelligence, imagination and an open mind.
What is your principle defect?: Weakness of will, comparing people to the standards I put myself to.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never had my brother and mother in my life. To not have the courage to try.
What would you like to be?: I would like to be me - the version my loved ones believe I can be, and most importantly the one I believe I can become.
What is your favorite color?: Purple. And sometimes every other color, depending on the emotions in me.
What is your favorite flower?: No favourite flower, all plants are my favourite and they are all magical.
What is your favorite bird?: The owl.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Michail Bulgakov.
Who are your favorite poets?: William Blake, Nikola Vaptsarov.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Every person who, despite the inequality in the world, finds happines in small things and is content with with the barely enough he has.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie Curie, Catherine The Great.
What are your favorite names?: Stella.
What is it you most dislike?: My fear, chosen ignorance.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Stalin.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The defeat of Hitler in Russia.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Willpower and courage.
How would you like to die?: Content with what I've achieved, surrounded by my loved ones.
What is your present state of mind?: A tad bit worried about the future. And finding difficulties to analyze myself.
What is your motto?: It's a secret.

Mercy, forgiveness and love shouldn't be kept for oneself because they are priceless, they should be given freely precisely because they can never be measured.

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