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On Sat, 08 Jan 11 07:53:58 UTC Matt (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To be alone
Where would you like to live?
In the mountains, with my love, in beauty and harmony
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To love, to have music and art, to have the monetary means to do what I please.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Lust and sloth
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Those who fight through fault to overcome adversity
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Wolfgang Mozart, Ludwig Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak, Leonard Bernstein, and John Wooden
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My mother, my grandmother, and any woman who overcomes societal bounds
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Suor Angelica
Your favorite painter?
Dali
Your favorite musician?
Dvorak
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence and integrity
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Intelligence, suppleness, and humor
Your favorite virtue?
Diligence
Your favorite occupation?
Music
Who would you have liked to be?
Yo-Yo Ma
Your most marked characteristic?
A need to feel accepted, a need to be perfect, a desire to be loved.
What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty
What is your principle defect?
Timidness; inability to say what I feel.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To not know music as art.
What would you like to be?
The best.
What is your favorite color?
Blue
What is your favorite flower?
Beauty is not with one flower alone, but the combination of them.
What is your favorite bird?
The blue bird.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
George Orwell and Douglas Adams
Who are your favorite poets?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who are your heroes in real life?
My mother, my father, Prof. Anthony Hose, and Prof. David Bjella
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
The Virgin Mary
What are your favorite names?
At this time, I do not know.
What is it you most dislike?
Ignorance
What historical figures do you most despise?
Adolf Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?
The events that my family members took place in.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Charm and perfect pitch
How would you like to die?
Peacefully, as though my life had been lived in order to benefit mankind.
What is your present state of mind?
Tired, slightly intoxicated, and incredibly truthful.
What is your motto?
I do not have one at the moment.

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