Proust Questionnaire: cdl's answers

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On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:56:45 UTC cdl (35) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: illness or physical weakness
Where would you like to live?: where I live for now, certainly somewhere else in the future
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to feel free and to always have many unexhausted desires
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: to those caused by a miserable life
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I don't really have heroes, but I prefer the sensitive, the passionate, the brave
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alexander the Great, Jesus Christ, Lorenzo de' Medici, Colombo, Elizabeth the 1st
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who are not afraid of using both their brain and their beauty
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: I don't really have heroes, but I prefer the sensitive, the passionate, the brave
Your favorite painter?: Beato Angelico
Your favorite musician?: Too many: Rossini and Mozart on top
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, bravery, balance
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Beauty, gentleness, intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: courage
Your favorite occupation?: reading, listening to music, swimming
Who would you have liked to be?: a Renaissance prince
Your most marked characteristic?: an odd mix of passion, formalism and melancholy
What do you most value in your friends?: honesty
What is your principle defect?: the need of getting along well with everybody
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: being blind
What would you like to be?: I'd always like to able to change, following my desires and my life's events
What is your favorite color?: it depends
What is your favorite flower?: I don't really like flowers
What is your favorite bird?: the falcon
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Tolstoj, Dostoevskij, Marguerite Yourcenar, Arthur Schnitzler
Who are your favorite poets?: Ovid, Baudelaire, Federico Garcia Lorca
Who are your heroes in real life?: heroes are from the past
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Jean d'Arc, Lucretia Borgia
What are your favorite names?: none
What is it you most dislike?: vulgarity and fraud
What historical figures do you most despise?: the destroyers
What event in military history do you most admire?: I admire peace more than war
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a body as knotty and smooth as a tree-trunk came out of the see
How would you like to die?: still able to think, speak and move
What is your present state of mind?: longing for the sun and embraces and kisses
What is your motto?: I don't have one

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