Proust Questionnaire: efha's answers

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On Mon, 26 Mar 12 00:37:59 UTC efha (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be alone and loveless in a meaningless life.
Where would you like to live?: In a place where I could find peace, love and beauty.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To love even the darkest times.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The lack of confidence
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The desperate ones (Werther, Brutus, A., Ahab, etc.) and the villains
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Heraclitus, Plato, Pascal, Rousseau, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Baudelaire, Nietzsche
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Beautiful women are like heroin to me
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Tender, poetic and pure women or hotties
Your favorite painter?: Turner, Klee and Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Mozart, Mahler and Elliott Smith
The quality you most admire in a man?: Exemplarity, passion, intelligence, probity, loyalty, freedom
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Sweetness, tenderness, naturalness, curiosity, joy, intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Selflessness or probity
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, writting, listening to music and day dreaming
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone luckier than me, a seducer or a genius
Your most marked characteristic?: Melancholia, craving to be loved, passion, shyness
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty, laughs, truth, trust, reliability
What is your principle defect?: weakness of will, lack of self-confidence, social difficulties to connect with others
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To find no purpose and no love in one's lifetime
What would you like to be?: Someone who makes history and delivers humanity an important work of art to diminish its suffering
What is your favorite color?: Those in an unexpected sunset
What is your favorite flower?: Roses or tulips
What is your favorite bird?: Eagle or falcon
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Goethe, Melville, Hamsun, Pascal, Rousseau, Thoreau, Kafka, Sartre, Artaud, Barrès, Céline, Stendhal
Who are your favorite poets?: Baudelaire, Goethe, Artaud, Hölderlin, Lamartine, Byron, Shelley, Heine
Who are your heroes in real life?: Bear Grylls
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Sabrina Spielrein, Rosa Luxemburg, Lou Andrea Salome
What are your favorite names?: None
What is it you most dislike?: Spiders, insects, guilt, being a coward, my hegelian negativity, my emptiness, my inability to act and to dare, the lack of creativity, one's narcissism and stupidity, fear
What historical figures do you most despise?: Mostly dictators and Voltaire
What event in military history do you most admire?: Rome's conquests and struggles
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Like Proust, "will power and irrestible charm" and faith
How would you like to die?: Fearless
What is your present state of mind?: I'm tired
What is your motto?: None

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