Proust Questionnaire: Victor Trevor's answers

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On Mon, 18 Feb 13 03:05:29 UTC Victor Trevor (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To not have any knowledge of who I am
Where would you like to live?: England, most likely...
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be in my gardens with a friend and/or a book...
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Arrogance, or capriciousness, or envy, or petulance
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who are intellectual and idealist...
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Oscar Wilde, primarily, anyone who was brave and thought for himself and dared to be who he was.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who are intelligent and think for themselves, those who are selfless.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Sibyl Vane or Ophelia, perhaps?
Your favorite painter?: Whistler or Klimt
Your favorite musician?: Debussy or Ravel or Vaughan Williams
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, ability to speak to me, morality, appreciation of life.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: And why would I have different standards for women?
Your favorite virtue?: Loyalty
Your favorite occupation?: Daydreaming, or writing, or thinking. Thinking, if I had to choose.
Who would you have liked to be?: Albert Camus, or Plato, or Debussy
Your most marked characteristic?: A sort of deep-set romanticism and longing.
What do you most value in your friends?: Compassion and intelligence.
What is your principle defect?: A rather self-destructive, lost nature.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be lost forever.
What would you like to be?: Myself, in a more ideal version that would make my friends happier.
What is your favorite color?: Probably emerald green.
What is your favorite flower?: Purple lilacs or roses, perhaps, or calla lilies.
What is your favorite bird?: The nightingale.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Wilde, Hesse, Sartre, Vonnegut, Grass, Mann, Dostoevsky, in no particular order.
Who are your favorite poets?: Garcia Lorca
Who are your heroes in real life?: Oscar Wilde, really see above 'favourite characters in history'
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Hannie Schaft, and Rosalind Franklin
What are your favorite names?: The ones of my friends
What is it you most dislike?: Myself
What historical figures do you most despise?: All the awful dictators and those who committed genocide especially
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't care for war.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Confidence
How would you like to die?: Painlessly, and with people who care about me, if they're there.
What is your present state of mind?: Forlorn and contemplative, as per my usual state of mind
What is your motto?: You create your own world and your own truth.

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