Proust Questionnaire: olga's answers

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On Wed, 06 Oct 10 05:43:36 UTC olga (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be pittied
Where would you like to live?: somewhere yet to be discovered
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to live a simple happy life and actually believe in it
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: arogance
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: hopeless romantics and aestets doomed in this incomplete world
Who are your favorite characters in history?: probably those who never left the Stories for the History
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: women who are not afraid to be
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: women who won't let you sleep at night; the reasons for that are not important
Your favorite painter?: right now, Egon Schiele
Your favorite musician?: oh wow, I have to think about it...
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence and dignity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence and dignity
Your favorite virtue?: for some reason, I dislike the word
Your favorite occupation?: reading, walking, painting. And yes, I admit, shopping
Who would you have liked to be?: someone who only wants to be herself
Your most marked characteristic?: too present
What do you most value in your friends?: intelligence
What is your principle defect?: too present
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: never to be born
What would you like to be?: sometimes I like imagining being a cat. On other days, I am content being myself, just a little more content
What is your favorite color?: I like the contrast, so it has to be at least two of them
What is your favorite flower?: cornflower, lily of the valley
What is your favorite bird?: owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Nabokov, Mann
Who are your favorite poets?: Mayakovski, Caks, Trakl, Kaerstner
Who are your heroes in real life?: peopl who have a life one can call real
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan D'Arc
What are your favorite names?: Sebastian, Roland, Arthur, Beatrice, Laura, Noah
What is it you most dislike?: myself in my bad days/hours/minutes
What historical figures do you most despise?: those who don't rise my interest
What event in military history do you most admire?: I tend to be a pacifist
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power (stealing that from Marcel!) and resistance
How would you like to die?: fast and beautiful. a car accident?
What is your present state of mind?: annoyance and disturbance because I can't bring myself to work
What is your motto?: I have never spend enough time to come up with one

ok, it is really hard to compete with Marcel. But I still think it's not a bad way to procrastinate

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