Proust Questionnaire: a young boy's answers

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On Sun, 20 Jun 10 12:01:45 UTC a young boy (91) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To not exist
Where would you like to live?: A world worth living in
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To love without abandon, to immerse oneself in the knowledge of the world, to be captivated by beauty
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Our own mortality
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: A true idea of a man being in the thrones of romance and wisdom
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Camus, Feynman, Newton, Salinger
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman of virtue and beauty leading an ordinary life
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
Your favorite painter?: Vermeer
Your favorite musician?: Nature
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, reason, vanity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Kindness, wisdom, heart to love
Your favorite virtue?: Serenity
Your favorite occupation?: Thinking
Who would you have liked to be?: An enlightened man
Your most marked characteristic?: Vanity to be loved
What do you most value in your friends?: Truth in everything
What is your principle defect?: Naiveté and lack of a stroke of brillance
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: not to be loved
What would you like to be?: Human. So I can live
What is your favorite color?: The most modest color of them all
What is your favorite flower?: Rose
What is your favorite bird?: The albatross
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Camus
Who are your favorite poets?: Edgar Allen Poe
Who are your heroes in real life?: Feynman
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Hypatia
What are your favorite names?: Nelson
What is it you most dislike?: Frailty
What historical figures do you most despise?: All who failed to live up to the standards of being a human being
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Age of Enligthenment
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Knowledge of the world, and gentle being
How would you like to die?: With wisdom and strength
What is your present state of mind?: Melancholy
What is your motto?: What I cannot create, I do not understand

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