Proust Questionnaire: Ju's answers

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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:15:16 UTC Ju (28) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be unable to love
Where would you like to live?: by the sea
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to find my way
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: trial and error
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who learn something out of life
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Those (mostly anonymous) who have fought against racism, injustice, fear, occupation, etc.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those (mostly anonymous) who have fought against racism, injustice, fear, occupation, etc.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who learn something out of life
Your favorite painter?: banksy at the moment
Your favorite musician?: All of the jazz musicians, particularly Ray Charles and billie Holiday but so many more
The quality you most admire in a man?: Decency and honesty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Decency and honesty
Your favorite virtue?: Decency and honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Creating, going forward, learning to be a better me
Who would you have liked to be?: I would have liked to find myself earlier in life; but I'm now happy to have started to find the way
Your most marked characteristic?: Loving
What do you most value in your friends?: Their being there when it counts, their words, their love
What is your principle defect?: Impatience, laziness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be deaf
What would you like to be?: More of myself
What is your favorite color?: The bright colours
What is your favorite flower?: Red rose
What is your favorite bird?: Albatros
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Probably people in the same movement or style as Louis Aragon and Coetzee
Who are your favorite poets?: Baudelaire, Aragan Wordsworth, Dickinson, Yeats... so many
Who are your heroes in real life?: my parents
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: All the women who have fought for equal rights
What are your favorite names?: They are secrets to me
What is it you most dislike?: Dishonesty
What historical figures do you most despise?: I cannot judge or despise
What event in military history do you most admire?: Rebellion against unjust powers
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A better-made body
How would you like to die?: Contented with what I've done in life
What is your present state of mind?: Being amused at people's aggressiveness
What is your motto?: Be great

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