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On Fri, 04 Mar 16 10:52:22 UTC Sejal Ghia (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Living in a crammed, unventilated, sunless space infested with rodents who have eaten away at your dusty books. Other miseries at least have some poetry to them.
- Where would you like to live?
- In the mountains, by a river.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Having people who love me and whom I can love. Being friends with my favorite writers, musicians, people. Unlimited and free-of-cost visaless travel. Endless time to read. Good food. Good tea. Good heath. Happy parents. And a cat.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Indolence
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Phileas Fogg (Around the World in Eighty Days); Winnie the Pooh; Unni (The Illicit Happiness of Other People); the protagonist in The Fall
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- My mother
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis); Jerusha Abbott (Daddy-Long-Legs)
- Your favorite musician?
- A. R. Rahman
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Kindness
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Lightness
- Your favorite virtue?
- Equanimity
- Your favorite occupation?
- Good conversation, reading and dreaming
- Who would you have liked to be?
- A cat
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Hedonism
- What do you most value in your friends?
- A sense of humour
- What is your principle defect?
- Aversion to anything that's unpleasant. This leads to a plethora of defects like laziness, procrastination, weakness of will, indecisiveness, lack of clarity, lack of opinions, insensitivity, and so on.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To not realize the value of what you have and thus waste it away.
- What would you like to be?
- Someone with strength of character. And a good writer.
- What is your favorite color?
- Impossible to answer.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Rose
- What is your favorite bird?
- Sparrow
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Nabokov, Marquez, Kundera, Pamuk, Vonnegut, Jerome K. Jerome, Camus
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Gulzar, Billy Collins, Neruda
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- At the moment, my boyfriend.
- What are your favorite names?
- I thought I'd have a long list but I can find none.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Work
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Flawless skin
- How would you like to die?
- Like this: http://m.poemhunter.com/poem/let-me-die-a-youngman-s-death/
- What is your present state of mind?
- Contentment
- What is your motto?
- I have none.
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