Proust Questionnaire: Electryo's answers

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On Fri, 01 Aug 14 05:33:37 UTC Electryo (15) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: That feeling of total emptiness, of being suffocated in the darkness
Where would you like to live?: In the wilderness, alone
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live apart from humanity in quiet communion with nature and art and my books
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Idleness and gluttony
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Lucifer, Edmond Dantes, Hamlet, Stephen Dedalus
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Nietzsche, Akhenaten, Thomas Jefferson, Plato
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jo March, Esther Greenwood, Maggie Tulliver, Hester Prynne
Your favorite painter?: William Blake, Hieronymus Bosch, Dali
Your favorite musician?: Bach, Beethoven, Wagner
The quality you most admire in a man?: Courage, honor, intelligence, wit
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Beauty, intelligence, grace
Your favorite virtue?: Truth
Your favorite occupation?: Dreaming
Your most marked characteristic?: A certain insecurity peculiar to the autodidact who is bitterly aware of her limits
What do you most value in your friends?: Thoughtfulness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: An existence devoid of beauty
What would you like to be?: Myself, fully realized
What is your favorite color?: A deep blue
What is your favorite flower?: The black rose
What is your favorite bird?: The eagle
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Flannery O'Connor
Who are your favorite poets?: Emily Dickinson, Shelley, Auden, Robinson Jeffers
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those who continually strive for self-betterment
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Hypatia, Catherine the Great, Louise Michel, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Germaine de Stael
What are your favorite names?: Katerina, Theodore, Emil, Philip, Miranda, Olive
What is it you most dislike?: Stupidity, ignorance
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battle of Thermopylae
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to speak many languages fluently
How would you like to die?: In a blaze of glory!
What is your motto?: Die and become

My username on youtube is also Electryo (it is short for Electryone, the daughter of Helios).

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