Proust Questionnaire: MTHSP's answers

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On Thu, 09 Jun 16 02:31:24 UTC MTHSP (28) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

Where would you like to live?: In a wooden house, where making more friends would be easy.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Being connected to nature, being swept away by the swell of a favorite piece of music, snuggling with a loved one.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Hypersensitivity, over-thinking and indolence. "Hibernating."
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Marie Stahlbaum, Jonathan Strange
Your favorite painter?: Leonid Afremov. "Bagatelle" and similar watercolor sketches by Kandinsky.
Your favorite musician?: Jonsi Birgisson. Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland. Zoe Keating. Frederic Chopin. Tchaikovsky. Camille Saint Saens.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Gentleness. Self-depreciating humor. Kindness. Enthusiasm.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Gentleness. Self-depreciating humor. Kindness. Enthusiasm.
Your favorite virtue?: Gentleness. Self-depreciating humor. Kindness. Enthusiasm.
Your favorite occupation?: Writing music, reading about some new theory, walking in nature, attending a concert or ballet, drinking hot tea.
Who would you have liked to be?: A healthier version of myself.
Your most marked characteristic?: Being so intensely and uncomfortably self-aware that I cannot actually see myself.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty, integrity, humor, loyalty, and perseverance (which they recquire to maintain my friendship, as I can be very difficult and withdrawn).
What is your principle defect?: Avoiding conflict like it's poisonous, being too insecure, having too active an imagination.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be concious of and striving for an ideal which I can never achieve and which I cannot persuade others to understand.
What would you like to be?: At peace.
What is your favorite color?: The colors of the world during the "blue hour" (twilight). Periwinkle.
What is your favorite flower?: Honeysuckle for scent, hydrangeas for beauty.
What is your favorite bird?: Owl, raven, swan, cardinal.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: E.T.A. Hoffmann, A.A. Milne, Susanna Clarke, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman.
Who are your favorite poets?: Coleridge, Poe, Keats, Byron.
What are your favorite names?: Nicolai, Rosalie, Christopher, Ivan, Felix, Rowan, Belle, Edward, Scarlett, Saoirse, Erik, Silas.
What is it you most dislike?: Prejudice, ignorance, stubbornness.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I do not understand war, however ending Hitler's terror was necessary. The White Rose Socety was admirable.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Confidence, decisiveness.
How would you like to die?: At peace with my past, present, and future. Loved by those I loved. Remembered.
What is your present state of mind?: Sehnsucht.
What is your motto?: "Stuff your eyes with wonder."

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