Proust Questionnaire: Uddhipan Thakur's answers

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On Tue, 05 Jul 16 13:49:31 UTC Uddhipan Thakur (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Not being able to love anything or anyone or even myself.
Where would you like to live?: Amsterdam or the Himalayas or South France
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To love, to travel, to understand stuff, to indulge in the little pleasures of life.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness, over analysis, falling in an intellectual echo chamber, fear of rejection
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who are cynical and idealists at the same time and those who love and fight and create with passion.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Marco Polo, Lao Tzu, Porus
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A curious woman with fierce tenderness and a soothing intellect.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are more than women without ceasing to be womanly; everything that is tender, poetic, pure and in every way beautiful. (same as Proust)
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Tagore (for the lyrics)
The quality you most admire in a man?: Courage and intellect based on empathy.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Tenderness, intelligence, empathy, courage
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, Dreaming and travelling
Who would you have liked to be?: A nomadic physicist.
Your most marked characteristic?: A craving to be loved and admired, but mostly the first.
What do you most value in your friends?: Curiosity and courage
What is your principle defect?: Lack of will power
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To live a life without hoping
What would you like to be?: Myself, a bit better each day
What is your favorite color?: Depends on the context, but I like Blue a lot.
What is your favorite flower?: Rose and wild flowers
What is your favorite bird?: Falcon
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Oscar Wilde and Tagore
Who are your favorite poets?: Pablo Neruda, Keats, Jibanananda Das
Who are your heroes in real life?: Bill Gates, Feynman
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra
What are your favorite names?: None in particular
What is it you most dislike?: My limitations and my faults
What historical figures do you most despise?: I am not sufficiently educated to say (same as Proust)
What event in military history do you most admire?: Battle of Hydaspes (Jhelum)
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power and irresistible charm (same as Proust)
How would you like to die?: A better man than I am, and much beloved (same as Proust)
What is your present state of mind?: Reflective

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