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On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:16:09 UTC Maruku (18) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Complete despair without renewal. This might be losing a loved one or faith (which have, in fact, brought about the lowest depths of misery).
Where would you like to live?
Ideally in a world of my craft; realistically in Italy.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To be enguled in deep thought and feeling. To have the freedom to change this.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Sensual fantasies and blasted timidity.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Alyosha Karamazov.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Socrates, yes, Wittgenstein. I can think of no one in the political or military spheres. I admire Kubrick and Dostoevsky.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
The ones that go unseen but not unwanted.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
My hesitation to answer speaks volumes. I'm sure there are some good women in The Grapes of Wrath somewhere.
Your favorite painter?
Vincent van Gogh
Your favorite musician?
Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?
Moral virtue.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Understanding, gentleness.
Your favorite virtue?
Love and faith, though I feel as though I should uphold dignity in this case.
Your favorite occupation?
Writing, speaking, caring.
Who would you have liked to be?
Socrates.
Your most marked characteristic?
Mysterious.
What do you most value in your friends?
Integrity and the recognition that integrity is not stubborness.
What is your principle defect?
Cowardice, damn cowardice.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To never have dared.
What would you like to be?
The most distant eye of the universe, to peer back at what beauties trail behind me.
What is your favorite color?
The best possible colour in the best possible place.
What is your favorite flower?
I am sadly not botanical, but sunflowers never fails to strike me.
What is your favorite bird?
A robin red-breast.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Ah! Steinbeck and Dostoevsky, but don't assume I'm literary,
Who are your favorite poets?
Tony Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Alexander Pope, Keats.
Who are your heroes in real life?
Ex-history teacher and them which 'av sacred 'arts.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Wittgenstein's mother.
What are your favorite names?
I too only have one at a time.
What is it you most dislike?
My faults and their causes.
What historical figures do you most despise?
The Nazis.
What event in military history do you most admire?
If I knew better I might mention Dunkirk or something to do with Ulysses S Grant.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Perfection.
How would you like to die?
Young, without regret or fear.
What is your present state of mind?
Wishing I could be more determined.
What is your motto?
What's a motto with you?

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