Proust Questionnaire: HHP's answers

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On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:51:18 UTC HHP (41) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To die alone
Where would you like to live?: Wherever I am happy
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A life spent laughing with loved ones when not learning and creating free from mundane worries.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My own
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Dreamers and idealists
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Jesus Christ, Buddha, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Therese of Lisseux, Galileo
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Scarlett O'Hara
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh, Da Vinci
Your favorite musician?: Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Schubert, Debussy, Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Kindness and intelligence - they rarely come together
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Tenderness and wisdom
Your favorite virtue?: Any away from self-righteousness
Your favorite occupation?: Inspiration
Who would you have liked to be?: Whom I always dreamed I'd be
Your most marked characteristic?: Need to be loved
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty and honesty
What is your principle defect?: Lack of constancy and perseverance
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not have mattered
What would you like to be?: Happy
What is your favorite color?: Any which brings me joy
What is your favorite flower?: Whichever is there for me to see
What is your favorite bird?: The hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare
Who are your heroes in real life?: Ernest Hemingway
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa
What are your favorite names?: Whichever christens my loved ones
What is it you most dislike?: Envy and self-righteousness
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Stalin, Mao
What event in military history do you most admire?: None
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Ditto ("will power and irresistible charm")
How would you like to die?: With loved ones the day after I'm done living
What is your present state of mind?: Frustration
What is your motto?: Make the most of everything.

HHP is currently living in Coral Gables, Florida (US), and hopes and prays someday soon to return to Europe where he has always belonged. A Capricorn born in January, 1968 on some god-forsaken island in the middle of the Caribbean.

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