Proust Questionnaire: ile105's answers

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On Sun, 06 Nov 16 17:20:54 UTC ile105 (27) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be irrevocably frustrated with my life.
Where would you like to live?: Wherever I could be who I am and do what I do. But London is the greatest place on Earth.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A table full of friends laughing and talking about who/what we love, after a fulfilling day at work.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To liars.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The anti-heroes, the faulted heroes, the non-heroes.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Emmeline Pankhurst, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother and grandmother, Jo Cox.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jane Eyre, Diane Lockhart.
Your favorite painter?: Chagall.
Your favorite musician?: My best friend.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, social and civic involvement, open-mindedness, kindness, quiet but brilliant humour, non-hidden passion.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Independence, intelligence, generosity (especially towards other women), open-mindedness, self-humour, kindness, non-hidden passion.
Your favorite virtue?: Diplomacy.
Your favorite occupation?: Going to the theatre.
Who would you have liked to be?: Michelle Obama.
Your most marked characteristic?: Not my place to say.
What do you most value in your friends?: Their presence, physical or otherwise.
What is your principle defect?: Conceit. You don’t need to ask other people.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Being alone in the world.
What would you like to be?: Better, and a better surgeon.
What is your favorite color?: Blue.
What is your favorite flower?: Blue rose.
What is your favorite bird?: The rook.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Auster, Austen, Manzoni, Foster Wallace, Bulgakov, Salinger.
Who are your favorite poets?: Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, Catullus, Virgil, Lee Masters, Brecht, Manzoni.
Who are your heroes in real life?: The ones who have been true teachers to me, even from a distance, and my friends.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Emmeline Pankhurst, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie.
What are your favorite names?: Sophie, Victoria, Alessandro.
What is it you most dislike?: Obtusity, ignorance, closed-mindedness, rudeness masked as straight honesty.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Nigel Farage.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Thermopiles' battle.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to morph according to need.
How would you like to die?: Without knowing it.
What is your present state of mind?: Tranquillity.
What is your motto?: Have courage, be kind.

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