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On Mon, 26 Sep 11 01:10:21 UTC Tyler (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Separation of love.
Where would you like to live?
On an island or ranch with all of my closest friends.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To love as much as I love another.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Gluttony, melancholy.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Mercutio
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Scipio, Zhuge Liane, Kiergegaard
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My grandmother.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Those women who are more than cardboard cutouts, women with passion.
Your favorite painter?
Dali
Your favorite musician?
Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?
Honesty
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Honesty
Your favorite virtue?
Integrity
Your favorite occupation?
The pursuit.
Who would you have liked to be?
How can I envision being anything other than myself?
Your most marked characteristic?
Walking the line
What do you most value in your friends?
Being with the other.
What is your principle defect?
Fear of rejection
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To be separated from love.
What would you like to be?
Happy
What is your favorite color?
Black
What is your favorite flower?
Tulips
What is your favorite bird?
Bluebirds
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Dostoyevsky, Camus, Tolkien
Who are your favorite poets?
Yeats, Bukowski, Poe
Who are your heroes in real life?
My grandmother.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc.
What are your favorite names?
I don't really have any.
What is it you most dislike?
Selfishness
What historical figures do you most despise?
Caesar, Robespierre, Stalin
What event in military history do you most admire?
Cincinnatus and Washington turning over their swords.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Sexual attractiveness
How would you like to die?
Any way that's painless.
What is your present state of mind?
Contemplative.
What is your motto?
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

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