Proust Questionnaire: Kasper's answers

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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:02:57 UTC Kasper (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The stagnation of will and heart
Where would you like to live?: Where I feel home
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To do the hardest thing on earth for me in the company of those that challenge and love me for what I will be
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Lying
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Boys and girls who laugh with the grace of ancient wisdom
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Einstein, Van Gogh, Thoreau, Isaac Israëls
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: An ordinary woman
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are strong, independent and in love with the anxiety of life
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh or Puvis de Chavannes
Your favorite musician?: Arvo Pärt
The quality you most admire in a man?: Integrity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Grace
Your favorite virtue?: To treat others as you wish to be treated
Your favorite occupation?: Painting/drawing, riding my bike, breathing in the air of indian summer and being with the people I love
Who would you have liked to be?: In adolescence I would have liked to be someone else, in maturity I would only like to be me and I suspect in old age I would like to be a child again
Your most marked characteristic?: A lust for life
What do you most value in your friends?: Mutual understanding and feeling
What is your principle defect?: Not paying enough attention to the people who I see every day
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Peace and serenity and nothing happening
What would you like to be?: Myself
What is your favorite color?: Beauty lies not in colors but in their harmony
What is your favorite flower?: All flowers
What is your favorite bird?: the starling
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Right now Italo Calvino and Cormac McCarthy
Who are your favorite poets?: Robert Frost
Who are your heroes in real life?: I prefer not to have heroes
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I prefer not to have heroes
What are your favorite names?: Agatha, Isaac, Israel, Andrew, Mercedes, Sally
What is it you most dislike?: My own worst qualities
What historical figures do you most despise?: No idea
What event in military history do you most admire?: Military practice in general is not something I value
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: I don't know
How would you like to die?: However I'm supposed to
What is your present state of mind?: Maundering
What is your motto?: Forget yourself

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