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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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