Proust Questionnaire: S.P.'s answers

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On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:46:18 UTC S.P. (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To have no hope of future happiness, or at least hope of lack of misery.
Where would you like to live?: The English countryside.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be removed from those with more faults than I, and to be able to study the universe.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Arrogance.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Fabrizio del Dongo (The Charterhouse of Parma.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Plato, Roger Bacon, Galileo.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: None.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: None.
Your favorite painter?: John William Waterhouse
Your favorite musician?: Rachmaninov
The quality you most admire in a man?: Restraint.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Will.
Your favorite virtue?: Self Control.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading.
Who would you have liked to be?: Newton.
Your most marked characteristic?: Lack of interest in ordinary things. A desire to understand the important questions of the universe.
What do you most value in your friends?: Sensitivity, thoughtfulness.
What is your principle defect?: I judge others by my own standards, and look down on them when they show less virtue than I.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose one's mind.
What would you like to be?: If not myself, a cat; they seem to be happy most of the time, what have they to care about.
What is your favorite color?: Green
What is your favorite flower?: Bluebells.
What is your favorite bird?: Kestrel.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Borges.
Who are your favorite poets?: John Keats, Christopher Marlowe, and Christina Rosetti.
Who are your heroes in real life?: none
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: none
What are your favorite names?: Sophie.
What is it you most dislike?: Deliberate rudeness.
What historical figures do you most despise?: none.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't know.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Tolerance.
How would you like to die?: In the act of discovering the secret of life.
What is your present state of mind?: Indecision and unsurety, though I do not know why.
What is your motto?: Small things occupy small minds. - Parva leves capiunt animas.

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