Proust Questionnaire: Nathan's answers

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On Sun, 26 Jun 11 08:16:28 UTC Nathan (28) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Loneliness
Where would you like to live?: New York City or Paris
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Reception of love and wealth, though not always a large amount
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Indifference and selfishness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who have sacrifice something of themselves for the greater or triumph of good
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Liberal politicians, Witty writers, and Humble intellectuals.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: See above answers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Every character in "Sex and the City"
Your favorite painter?: Vincent Van Gogh or Manet
Your favorite musician?: Scissor Sisters or Kander and Ebb
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligent, Humble, Ethically bound, Devotion to purpose and to others, Honest and Kind
The quality you most admire in a woman?: See Above
Your favorite virtue?: Love
Your favorite occupation?: Drinking and laughing with friends, eating great food and dreaming
Who would you have liked to be?: God
Your most marked characteristic?: Kindness, gentleness and the virtues of a Gentleman, also selfishness and indifference
What do you most value in your friends?: Love, patience, a good conversation and a good laugh
What is your principle defect?: Endless worry, pessimism and regret
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Poverty and loneliness
What would you like to be?: Content, financially secure and intellectually ravenous
What is your favorite color?: I think I am most calm with blue
What is your favorite flower?: Pansy
What is your favorite bird?: Chicken
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Plato
Who are your favorite poets?: Myself
Who are your heroes in real life?: Too many to answer.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Ahn Sung Su Khi (I think thats how its spelt)
What are your favorite names?: Anything that rolls on the tongue
What is it you most dislike?: pompous words. Like those sought out by 19th Century poets to prove intellectual superiority
What historical figures do you most despise?: Too many to answer
What event in military history do you most admire?: The bravery of every soldier in every war.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power and irresistible charm
How would you like to die?: At home by suicide
What is your present state of mind?: Contentment and despair
What is your motto?: Wherever there is another human being, there is an opportunity for kindness - Seneca

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