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On Fri, 20 Jun 14 14:11:56 UTC M. Le Ahcim-nevets (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To become not-self, and to lose empathy by means of losing feeling; sanity as such
Where would you like to live?
In a an apartment over a bar or tobacco shop; somewhere with real, but friendly, feeling
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Bourbon, cigarettes, poetry, music, and madness
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
The fault of ethical privation
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Stephen Dedalus and Candide
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Alexander the Great, Cesare Borgia, and Nieztsche
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Leymah Gbowee and Harriet Shaw Weaver
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Miranda of The Tempest, Lysistrata, and Homer's Penelope
Your favorite painter?
Francis Bacon, Paul Klee, Giovanni Di Paolo
Your favorite musician?
Jimi Hendrix, Rachmaninoff, Gerhardt Zimmerman, Yo Yo Ma, Tori Amos
The quality you most admire in a man?
Peaceful violence, bravery, modesty in luck
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Honesty, friendliness, strategy
Your favorite virtue?
Love, faith in love
Your favorite occupation?
Gardening, followed by smoking and drinking mixed with writing
Who would you have liked to be?
Silent
Your most marked characteristic?
Skinniness
What do you most value in your friends?
Their love -- provided their exquisiteness keeps the price of that love rather high, and that their love is worth loving in return
What is your principle defect?
Absence
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Having lived a different life
What would you like to be?
Human, honest, and brave
What is your favorite color?
The color which lies to the edges of those we have given names
What is your favorite flower?
The bluest iris and the reddest poppy
What is your favorite bird?
Crows and ravens, or hawks
Who are your favorite prose writers?
James Joyce, Charles Bukowski, Mark Z Danielewski, William S Burroughs, Emily Bronte, Herman Melville, John Keats, Boccacio
Who are your favorite poets?
T S Eliot, Charles Bukowski, Ezra Pound, Baudelaire, W H Auden, e. e. cummings, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Emily Dickinson-- impossibly many more
Who are your heroes in real life?
The men who see and feel, and from this, love tenderly and violently
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
The women who hear and feel, and from this, love madly and passionately
What are your favorite names?
The Holy Ones
What is it you most dislike?
Compromise and disjuncts
What historical figures do you most despise?
The genocidal, resentful and oppressive
What event in military history do you most admire?
"Lay on, Macduff!"
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A sound physiological constitution
How would you like to die?
Happy to have lived
What is your present state of mind?
Unresolved
What is your motto?
Love everything.

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