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On Tue, 27 Apr 10 20:13:03 UTC Rethinker (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Betraying the values you have kept for your whole life
Where would you like to live?: Either in a bustling metropol, in the middle of everyone, or in wilderness in the middle of nowhere, Both offer solitude.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Does it exist at all? Or are we all haunted by our mortality, with only fleeting moments of peace.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To indulgent solitude and selfishness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Perhaps men that are braver and more insightful than myself.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: I cannot say the names. I admire people who rose from nothingness to glory, believed in their own values and were willing to risk everything they have to make their ideal world come true.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: I can't think of such a person. Maybe ordinary wives living ordinary lives without complaint for themselves.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: I cannot think of anyone.
Your favorite painter?: I cannot think of anyone.
Your favorite musician?: Nobuo Uematsu
The quality you most admire in a man?: Courage (to make tough choices and see them through )
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Kind-heartedness
Your favorite virtue?: Truthfulness, immortality, eternity
Your favorite occupation?: Thinking, with no interruption.
Who would you have liked to be?: I cannot think that I would like to be anyone else than myself. Someone happier. But from my viewpoint now, I can't pick someone someone happy, because it would mean they aren't aware of their true nature.
Your most marked characteristic?: A constant strive towards.. something
What do you most value in your friends?: A bond that lasts throughout the years, even if we don't meet.
What is your principle defect?: Strong sense of protection of self and self's values and thoughts
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Nothing.. I'm even afraid of the thought, but I seem to be at peace with everything. A thought I cannot stand is eternal torture.
What would you like to be?: I would like to be an eternal observer of things, with eternal peace. As the last person of the universe, I would finally turn off its lights after seeing all its life.
What is your favorite color?: Blue is my habitual answer.. But isn't it something fiery between yellow, orange and red? That's it.
What is your favorite flower?: A rose.
What is your favorite bird?: An eagle
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I can't answer this with enough knowledge
Who are your favorite poets?: I don't know enough poets to say
Who are your heroes in real life?: Nobody
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Nobody
What are your favorite names?: Terra sounds beautiful and enables us to live
What is it you most dislike?: To be forced to do something that is not from myself
What historical figures do you most despise?: Who indeed.. nobody? Fools who don't realize they are fools, and keep making fun of others
What event in military history do you most admire?: Spartan defence of Thermopylae against Persians, Finnish Winter and Continuation wars against USSR, Nazi blitzkrieg to France through neutral countries bypassing the Mavignot line, development and dropping of the nuclear bomb.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A willingness to work without constant painful feeling.
How would you like to die?: In a nuclear blast. Snuffed out without knowing what hit me or when.
What is your present state of mind?: Nostalgic
What is your motto?: Strive for life until you find death will bring you more happiness.

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