Proust Questionnaire: Dominique's answers

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On Tue, 06 Mar 18 15:59:47 UTC Dominique answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be away from the saintly persons. To not get their association.
Where would you like to live?: Ideally I would love to live in Italy in a beautiful villa surounded by gardens.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: I do not think I desire any earthly happiness, it is actually a myth. Even if you obtain it, it won't last.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Ignorance and badly placed good intentions.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those people who work together with enthusiasm and passion.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Delacroix the artist but more to the point, the vaishnava philosophers.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A friend of mine who built an entire temple and temple life with her husband.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Drupadi, Yashoda and Radharani...but they are not fiction. Who can understand that?
Your favorite painter?: Delacroix
Your favorite musician?: Bach
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence and determination.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence and beauty, kindness and gentleness.
Your favorite virtue?: Self realized
Your favorite occupation?: Painting and sharing my knowledge through writing or talking.
Who would you have liked to be?: A man and more specifically a sannyasi
Your most marked characteristic?: To be a good example of determination and spiritual realizations.
What do you most value in your friends?: determination, charisma, and intelligence, as well as kindness.
What is your principle defect?: Pride and no gentleness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be abandoned sick in an hospital bed, among strangers and ignorant doctors.
What would you like to be?: A wealthy artist and great mind.
What is your favorite color?: aqua blue
What is your favorite flower?: A rose
What is your favorite bird?: the green parrot of india
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Maupassant
Who are your favorite poets?: Rimbaud
Who are your heroes in real life?: Swami Narasingha and Srila Prabhupada
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I do not have one
What are your favorite names?: Krishna, Radha and Rama
What is it you most dislike?: I do not like my animal qualities which control my tongue and my genitals.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The reign of Maharaja Yudhistira
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A magic mantra allowing a gold coin to appear under my pillow every day.
How would you like to die?: Amount the kirtan of the devotees.
What is your present state of mind?: I am very anthusiastic to share what I know and need to paint most painfully.
What is your motto?: Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. (Democritus)

Visit my oil paintings on canvas, especially the section about the "Sacred Art Of India"here: http://dominiqueamendola.com
Go to my youtube channel answering philosophical questions, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ExsAzaoB2pYGeuODwMn2A

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