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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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