Proust Questionnaire: Vrinda S's answers

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On Fri, 18 Nov 16 04:15:30 UTC Vrinda S (21) 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 faith in myself
Where would you like to live?: In the mountains, in a cottage
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: None as such - but perhaps books, music, landscapes
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Too much sleep.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The Greek Tragic heroes, with their distance and idealism. And their tragedy.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Martin Luther King Jr, BR Ambedkar, Mother Teresa.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Frida Kahlo
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: All those who resist and fight and were not the convention.
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh, Lucian Freud, Cezanne.
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Dylan, Beatles, Adele, SD Burman.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, morality, wit.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, morality, wit.
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty, all those which are just and moral in any time and space.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, singing, writing.
Who would you have liked to be?: None but what I already am.
Your most marked characteristic?: A need to mean something elsewhere - to care. It gives me a sense of myself.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty - to tell me what I am. And the ability to be able to listen to what they are.
What is your principle defect?: Fear of myself - non understanding of the 'self'.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not be loved.
What would you like to be?: None but what I am.
What is your favorite color?: White, blue.
What is your favorite flower?: Wild flowers; and the ones that are hidden.
What is your favorite bird?: The cuckoo.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: As of now, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf.
Who are your favorite poets?: Pablo Neruda, Seamus Heaney, TS Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those who have fought for moral causes which were not just theirs but of the many oppressed.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Those who were never the norm.
What are your favorite names?: None as such.
What is it you most dislike?: Entitlement and discrimination - be it from anyone, including myself.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Mao.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Now, none.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to write better verse.
How would you like to die?: In my sleep.
What is your present state of mind?: Slight irritation, thanks to this questionnaire.
What is your motto?: Haven't thought of it. Whatever inspires me at a given point.

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