Proust Questionnaire: Sydchez's answers

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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:57:29 UTC Sydchez answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Eternal solitude.
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere with a lot of people, where you can stand in a crowd and still be alone.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be loved for myself, and perhaps to have a lovely library.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: "Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul." - Nietzsche
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Edmond Dantes, Max Fischer, Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Darcy
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Emmanuel Kant, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: I don't actually know.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Alice in Wonderland, Cossette, Eponine, Ophelia
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh.
Your favorite musician?: Tchaikovsky
The quality you most admire in a man?: Sense of humor, romanticism, sincerity, and of course honesty.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Honesty again, and easygoing, friendly.
Your favorite virtue?: Sincerity.
Your favorite occupation?: Daydreaming.
Who would you have liked to be?: No one but myself.
Your most marked characteristic?: A need to be incessantly talking, along with a dislike of silence.
What do you most value in your friends?: That they will tell me what I don't want to hear if it is the truth.
What is your principle defect?: Laziness without the proper motivation.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not make mistakes.
What would you like to be?: A cat - sleeping in the sun, being fascinated for hours with a simple bit of string, and being loved even while aloof.
What is your favorite color?: Periwinkle.
What is your favorite flower?: Spider mums.
What is your favorite bird?: The Red Cardinal against the snow.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Oscar Wilde, Alexandre Dumas, Ambrose Bierce, John Green, J.D. Salinger, Garth Nix, Edgar Allen Poe.
Who are your favorite poets?: T. S. Eliot.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Anastasia Romanov.
What are your favorite names?: My name is quite nice...
What is it you most dislike?: Lying.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Andrew Jackson and FDR.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battle of Balaclava.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Persuasion.
How would you like to die?: Of old age, peacefully and in my sleep.
What is your present state of mind?: Capital.
What is your motto?: Glory fades, but honor is forever.

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