Proust Questionnaire: timwarnock's answers

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On Thu, 23 Sep 10 16:26:48 UTC timwarnock (34) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The bliss of being
Where would you like to live?: Anywhere and everywhere
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To fill my heart with love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To live even in a second without a sense of awe at the beauty of existence
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those that transcend their limitations
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Unsung heroes of art and science
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman of beauty, wit, strength, and devotion to all she loves
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those that transcend their limitations
Your favorite painter?: Rossetti
Your favorite musician?: Enigma
The quality you most admire in a man?: Beauty, creativity, warmth, passion
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Beauty, creativity, loving, caring
Your favorite virtue?: Love
Your favorite occupation?: Love, sex, food, friends, travel, and art
Who would you have liked to be?: I know only me
Your most marked characteristic?: Thinking
What do you most value in your friends?: Loving kindness
What is your principle defect?: A belief in the perfection of existence
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To spend even a second without experiencing the bliss of being
What would you like to be?: Transcending self
What is your favorite color?: All colors have their beauty and a place of favor
What is your favorite flower?: All those that I am fortunate enough to see
What is your favorite bird?: Same as colors, they all have their place of favor, even pigeons-- occasionally
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Joseph Campbell
Who are your favorite poets?: Rumi
Who are your heroes in real life?: All those that see past their egos
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: All that have loved
What are your favorite names?: Victor
What is it you most dislike?: Apathy
What historical figures do you most despise?: History is not something I despise
What event in military history do you most admire?: The unofficial Biritsh-German Christmas truce during WWI
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Clairvoyance?
How would you like to die?: As I lived
What is your present state of mind?: Calm, restless
What is your motto?: Life is fundamentally simple, beautiful, and blissful

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