Proust Questionnaire: Hulot Redux's answers

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On Thu, 02 Oct 14 20:51:12 UTC Hulot Redux answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be useless to other people
Where would you like to live?: In a simple warm country of friendly people
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To understand and be understood by an equal intelligence
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To the faults of pleasure and experience seeking.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: People who ponder on the meaning of things below the obvious superficial ones.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Richard III, William Wilberforce, Jane Austen
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who manage to transcend the pressures on them to conform to gender stereotypes.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Satirical sharp witty women, who maintain their sense of themselves and their intelligence in the face of societies expectations.
Your favorite painter?: Magritte?
Your favorite musician?: None
The quality you most admire in a man?: Verve, wit, nonchalance, self-assuredness, willingness to be open to experience and emotion.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, self-awareness, poise, wit.
Your favorite virtue?: The virtue of patience which I lack
Your favorite occupation?: Exploring ideas, exploring sensations, crossing boundaries.
Who would you have liked to be?: I would have liked to have been someone who is afraid of nothing.
Your most marked characteristic?: A desire to be envied and admired for talents which I actually possessed, rather than qualities others only imagine.
What do you most value in your friends?: Self-awareness and interest in others.
What is your principle defect?: Impatience and despair, weak will and hedonism
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose my mind
What would you like to be?: I would like to be confident and bold and honest with myself.
What is your favorite color?: Turquoise.
What is your favorite flower?: Foxglove, for that seems symbolic to me.
What is your favorite bird?: Skylark for summer
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Now I like Austen, and Wodehouse
Who are your favorite poets?: Now I like Borges and Neruda
Who are your heroes in real life?: Someone i know well, who isn't afraid to explore boundaries
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Boadicea
What are your favorite names?: Emily Alice Lola Viola
What is it you most dislike?: Being ostracised
What historical figures do you most despise?: Mao
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Music
How would you like to die?: In the arms of someone who loves me
What is your present state of mind?: Confusion and amorousness
What is your motto?: I don't have one.

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