Proust Questionnaire: vard95's answers

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On Thu, 02 Jun 16 10:48:43 UTC vard95 answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be trapped in ignorance
Where would you like to live?: In a free thinking society
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to help those I love and those I do not yet know
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Not bothering to take the first step
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Athos, Pierre Bezukhov and many more
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates, Freud, J.S. Mill, Scipio Africanus, David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are graceful and strong
Your favorite painter?: Modigliani
Your favorite musician?: Chopin
The quality you most admire in a man?: Integrity, strength to persevere
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence, grace, kindness
Your favorite virtue?: Intelligence and empathy
Your favorite occupation?: reading, debating, watching good movies
Who would you have liked to be?: An architect but I was not gifted enough
Your most marked characteristic?: A craving to be loved and admired
What do you most value in your friends?: Integrity and loyalty
What is your principle defect?: lack of understanding, weakness of will
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have had a purpose
What would you like to be?: Myself but my true self
What is your favorite color?: green and blue
What is your favorite flower?: orchids
What is your favorite bird?: hawk
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Tolstoy, Orhan Pamuk, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Who are your favorite poets?: Lermontov, Tsvetaeva, W.H. Auden
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Nefirtiti
What are your favorite names?: it matters on how I associate with the person
What is it you most dislike?: My worst qualities in others
What historical figures do you most despise?: Too many
What event in military history do you most admire?: The meeting of Scipio Africanus and Hannibal
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: will power and mind reading
How would you like to die?: A man who's name will be sung through time
What is your present state of mind?: Annoyance at lack of progress
What is your motto?: Too young to afford such luxury

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