Proust Questionnaire: clockwork's answers

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On Sun, 28 Oct 12 22:58:00 UTC clockwork (34) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Living a life that is not my own.
Where would you like to live?: San Francisco.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Peace of mind, and total artistic expression.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Wasting my life due to madness.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Hank Chinaski.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Egon Schiele, Bach, Mozart., Vivaldi, Alistar Crowley, Anton Levey.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Powerful artistic women who do as they please.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Warrior women.
Your favorite painter?: Egon Schiele.
Your favorite musician?: Vivaldi.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Artistic ability, perseverance, kindness and a sense of justice.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strength, independence, curiosity, ambition, intelligence, and artistic ability/sense.
Your favorite virtue?: Self confidence, and ambition.
Your favorite occupation?: Teaching, drawing, playing/making music, painting.
Who would you have liked to be?: A member of royalty, or part of the artistic elite.
Your most marked characteristic?: Kindess, justice, and forgiveness.
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness, understanding, tolerance.
What is your principle defect?: Self loathing, fear, self destruction.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To live a life that was not my own.
What would you like to be?: Powerful.
What is your favorite color?: The absence of color, black.
What is your favorite flower?: Cherry blossom.
What is your favorite bird?: Raven/crow.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Bukowski.
Who are your favorite poets?: Rumi.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Werner Herzog, Yoshiki.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Women warriors.
What are your favorite names?: Violet, Valentine, Akuma, Hannibal.
What is it you most dislike?: myself.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, Reagan.
What event in military history do you most admire?: WWII.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Discipline.
How would you like to die?: In a sword fight with a worthy opponent.
What is your present state of mind?: Dark, damaged and unstable.
What is your motto?: Fuck the world.

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