Proust Questionnaire: Walter's answers

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On Wed, 13 May 2009 19:39:44 UTC Walter (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Doubt of any sort.
Where would you like to live?: In the kingdom of heaven.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Either looking forward to afterlife or consolation through wine, women and the like
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Opting the easiest way out.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Frederic Moreau.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Jesus, Jeanne d'Arc, Napoleon, de Gaulle and many more which don't enter my mind right now.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Anyone with a bosom large enough to provide consolation.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Mary, mother of God.
Your favorite painter?: None with whom I have a special rapport.
Your favorite musician?: None with whom I have a special rapport.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Being motherlike and chaste; like Mary.
Your favorite virtue?: Sobriety.
Your favorite occupation?: Being nostalgic.
Who would you have liked to be?: None in particular.
Your most marked characteristic?: Pensiveness.
What do you most value in your friends?: Care.
What is your principle defect?: As I said; opting the easiest way out.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Finding God exists or doesn't at the end of your life, thus never having been able to live anything but an Ersatzlife.
What would you like to be?: A tender girl.
What is your favorite color?: White.
What is your favorite flower?: I go with Marcel here.
What is your favorite bird?: I haven't been able to descry anything pleasurable in birds.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Flaubert, Carroll/Dodgson, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Chekhov.
Who are your favorite poets?: Nijhoff (Dutch poet).
Who are your heroes in real life?: Nearly everyone who's confident of himself.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Jeanne d'Arc.
What are your favorite names?: Anna.
What is it you most dislike?: Doubt.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Judas, Luther, Voltaire.
What event in military history do you most admire?: D-day was pretty epic.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Confidence.
How would you like to die?: Doesn't matter, if only as soon as possible.
What is your present state of mind?: Doubt up to the point of insanity.
What is your motto?: I don't know. That is to say, my motto is 'I don't know'.

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