Proust Questionnaire: William's answers

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On Thu, 03 Mar 11 12:48:54 UTC William (43) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be without credibility
Where would you like to live?: on a small country acreage
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: a warm day ideal for long walking and quiet peacefulness
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: selfishness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: the thinkers, questioners, and rebels
Who are your favorite characters in history?: ludwig van beethoven, william shakespeare, john keats
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: strong women without pretension
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Juliet, Portia, Cleopatra
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: disinterestedness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: grace and a point of view
Your favorite virtue?: generosity and gratitude
Your favorite occupation?: thinking
Who would you have liked to be?: a famous scientist
Your most marked characteristic?: diffidence and separatness
What do you most value in your friends?: a sense of humor, good conversation, kindness and independence
What is your principle defect?: lack of true compassion
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to die within the grip of bitterness
What would you like to be?: free
What is your favorite color?: blue
What is your favorite flower?: lilly
What is your favorite bird?: falcon
Who are your favorite prose writers?: william faulkner, franz kafka, samuel beckett
Who are your favorite poets?: john keats, william shakespeare, bp nicol
Who are your heroes in real life?: emergency room doctors and nurses, teachers, police and firemen
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: queen elizabeth I, cleopatra, rosa parks
What are your favorite names?: shelaine, victoria, alexandria
What is it you most dislike?: stupidity combined with pretence, arrogance, or immaturity
What historical figures do you most despise?: joseph stalin, joseph mccarthy, most of the papacy
What event in military history do you most admire?: the victory of russia in the battle of stalingrad
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: quick wit
How would you like to die?: free and forgetful
What is your present state of mind?: determined, undaunted, more and more independent
What is your motto?: there is only this sound, this ground and then nothing... forever

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