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On Tue, 19 Jan 16 17:36:49 UTC Pranaya R (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 unloved or be unworthy of any love
Where would you like to live?
In my mind
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To be able to lead a comfortable life complete with the ones I love and enough books to read, films to watch and beer to drink
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Sloth and pessimism
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Howard W Campbell, Jr, from Mother Night, who is prone to becoming different people at different times; and Hamlet
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Baruch Spinoza, Mary Shelley, Jesus, BP Koirala
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Sita, Lady Macbeth, Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman)
Your favorite painter?
Goya, Francis Bacon
Your favorite musician?
Bill Callahan
The quality you most admire in a man?
To be able to stand for what he believes in but also admit when he's wrong
The quality you most admire in a woman?
To be able to stand for what she believes in but also admit when she's wrong
Your favorite virtue?
Honesty and resolve
Your favorite occupation?
Writing
Who would you have liked to be?
Someone better than myself
Your most marked characteristic?
Honesty
What do you most value in your friends?
A willingness to listen
What is your principle defect?
Pessimism and a lack of faith in myself
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To lose my ability to express myself
What would you like to be?
Someone better than myself
What is your favorite color?
Forest green
What is your favorite flower?
Bird of paradise and the hoya carnosa
What is your favorite bird?
The eagle
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Mahmoud Darwish, Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut
Who are your favorite poets?
Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Hafez, Basho.
Who are your heroes in real life?
Kurt Vonnegut
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Sei Shonagon
What are your favorite names?
Maya
What is it you most dislike?
Those who take pride in willful ignorance
What historical figures do you most despise?
History is unkind to those who on the losing end so I don't despise anyone really.
What event in military history do you most admire?
The battle of Nalapani.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Musical ability.
How would you like to die?
Quietly and painlessly.
What is your present state of mind?
Thoughtful and reflective but slightly at a loss at realising that I don't know quite as much about myself as I thought.
What is your motto?
So it goes.

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