Proust Questionnaire: SeraphimeRising's answers

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On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:43:04 UTC SeraphimeRising (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To learn that forgiving someone is sometimes the worst thing you can do
Where would you like to live?: Where life is lived and death is celebrated
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have no regrets
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My commitment to being a nobody in this life
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The faithful sidekick -- always loyal, true, dependable, and forgiving
Who are your favorite characters in history?: The ones that taught me that conquering is never enough
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman of great intelligence, wit, and strength
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The ones that are loved for their spirit and fire; the ones that are not tamed nor daunted
Your favorite painter?: Joaquin Sorolla
Your favorite musician?: Frederic Chopin
The quality you most admire in a man?: Strength, tenacity, loyalty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Confidence
Your favorite virtue?: Patience -- the one most easily overlooked
Your favorite occupation?: living
Who would you have liked to be?: the nameless muse in the shadows
Your most marked characteristic?: Unflapped loyalty and the ability to forgive all transgressions
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty and respect -- in spirte of the decisions I make that they believe is not in my best interest
What is your principle defect?: Lack of ambition; willingness to hide
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have known romantic love
What would you like to be?: I would like to be nothing more in this life than to be happy, content, loved, and at peace
What is your favorite color?: There is not one color I love above all -- I simply love color
What is your favorite flower?: Dahlia -- eloquent and wild
What is your favorite bird?: Dove
Who are your favorite prose writers?: deSade
Who are your favorite poets?: Donne, Shakespeare, Neruda
Who are your heroes in real life?: My sister who always finds the means to survive
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eleanor of Aquataine
What are your favorite names?: Sophie
What is it you most dislike?: The spotlight
What historical figures do you most despise?: those who refuse to study the past
What event in military history do you most admire?: There are too many to list
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: gentle sinceriety
How would you like to die?: Quietly without ever knowing again what is like to survive the one I have loved
What is your present state of mind?: active
What is your motto?: It is not enough to conquer, one must learn to seduce -- Voltaire

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