Proust Questionnaire: Sejal Ghia's answers

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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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