Proust Questionnaire: Elena Di Cesare's answers

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On Fri, 19 Jul 13 09:49:13 UTC Elena Di Cesare answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Living without a purpose.
Where would you like to live?: Nirvana and being free from the realm of Samsara.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A mild climate, nature, silence, vastness, love, passion, understanding, excitement, adventure.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Impatience.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to live their ideals.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Joan of Arc, Elizabeth 1, Mata Hari, Einstein, Da Vinci, Galileo, Plato, Socrates, Gandhi, Artemisia Gentileschi.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to live their ideals.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to live their ideals
Your favorite painter?: Paul Gauguin, Picasso (blue/pink periods) Michelangelo and most artists.
Your favorite musician?: I don't have a favourite musician. Almost all music is sublime and a language of the soul.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Perseverance, determination, steadfastness, poise, dignity, integrity, high E.Q. fire, passion, drive, a gypsy with impeccable manners.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Not having to resort to typically 'feminine games' to get on in life. The knowledge that feminine strength is rooted in being feminine.
Your favorite virtue?: Intuition, sensitivity, perception, compassion, kindness.
Your favorite occupation?: Dreaming while listening to music, writing, exploring.
Who would you have liked to be?: No one besides myself so that I may be inspired to be greater than myself.
Your most marked characteristic?: Sensitivity.
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty and no-strings-attached generosity.
What is your principle defect?: Impatience.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: A lucid mind in a failing body.
What would you like to be?: Less cautious about opening my heart. Less reliant on the mind to journey through life.
What is your favorite color?: Blue.
What is your favorite flower?: The sunflower. Helianthus Hybridus (Helios = Elena = the sun).
What is your favorite bird?: The falcon.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Le Carre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth, Umberto Eco, Erica Jong, Graham Greene. Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert, Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Who are your favorite poets?: Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Shakespeare, Byron, Pablo Neruda, Oscar Wilde, Shelley, Keats.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Simple, salt-of-the-earth people.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Those who have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to live their ideals.
What are your favorite names?: Male: James. Female: Sahara.
What is it you most dislike?: Arrogance, envy, jealousy, greed, domination.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and all like-minded people.
What event in military history do you most admire?: England's defeat of the Spanish Armada during the reign of Elizabeth 1.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Patience.
How would you like to die?: Content. Approaching the exit tunnel with the knowledge that my life was significant to one or more persons. We die twice: the first time when we stop breathing and a second time when the last person on earth pronounces our name.
What is your present state of mind?: Restless.
What is your motto?: I don't have a motto - it's too absolute and life is dynamic.

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