Proust Questionnaire: Dominick Miller's answers

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On Mon, 21 Mar 11 08:57:17 UTC Dominick Miller (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Harming others.
Where would you like to live?: Greece.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: The complete happiness of others.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness and apathy.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who do for others without forsaking their ideals.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates, Gandhi, Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Woman who refuse allow others to take their dignity.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jocasta, Edna Pontellier, Audrey Hepburn characters.
Your favorite painter?: Gustave Dore.
Your favorite musician?: Bob Dylan.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Virtue, dignity, intelligence.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Virute, dignity, intelligence.
Your favorite virtue?: Selflesness.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading philosophy.
Who would you have liked to be?: Socrates.
Your most marked characteristic?: My want to learn and to understand.
What do you most value in your friends?: Happiness.
What is your principle defect?: Inability to understand myself.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never feel love.
What would you like to be?: Happy because of others happiness.
What is your favorite color?: Black.
What is your favorite flower?: Lily.
What is your favorite bird?: Owl.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoyevesky, Plato.
Who are your favorite poets?: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Milton, Whitman.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Dr. David Hart.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Charlotte Corday, Simone Weil.
What are your favorite names?: December-Elizabeth (a daughters name).
What is it you most dislike?: My own failings.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Any person who has ever tried to be a ruler of men and women.
What event in military history do you most admire?: None, I'd rather there never be any.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The intelligence to prove through logic the necessity of love, virtue, and equality.
How would you like to die?: Quickly.
What is your present state of mind?: Contentment.
What is your motto?: Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.-- Jean-Paul Sartre

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