Proust Questionnaire: Francisco Javier Gil Vidal's answers

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On Mon, 03 Feb 14 19:45:00 UTC Francisco Javier Gil Vidal (54) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Not to have a job
Where would you like to live?: In Germany
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Making love to the four women I love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To silence out of weakness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Tannhäuser, Amfortas, Tristan, Martín Fierro
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Eva Perón, Juan Perón
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The Suffragettes
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Isolda
Your favorite painter?: Monnet
Your favorite musician?: Wagner
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, will power
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, will power, tenderness
Your favorite virtue?: Will power
Your favorite occupation?: Mathematics, day-dreaming
Who would you have liked to be?: Ringo Starr, David Hilbert, myself with a little more luck
Your most marked characteristic?: Not to call it quits even when all is lost
What do you most value in your friends?: Sincerity
What is your principle defect?: Tend to lose opportunities through a basic dispair and hopelessness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to love
What would you like to be?: An accomplished musician
What is your favorite color?: Red
What is your favorite flower?: Lotus
What is your favorite bird?: Phoenix
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Marcel Proust, Hermann Hesse
Who are your favorite poets?: Jorge Luis Borges
Who are your heroes in real life?: David Hilbert, Richard Wagner
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eva Perón
What are your favorite names?: MArcel, Alejandro
What is it you most dislike?: Greed without empathy
What historical figures do you most despise?: Winston Churchill, Dubya Bush, Hermann Göring
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battle of Stalingrad (fro the Soviet side!)
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A talent for melody
How would you like to die?: I wouldn't like to die!
What is your present state of mind?: Tranquility
What is your motto?: I don't need luck. I make my luck!

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