Paul's Fault - The Infamous Proust Questionnaire

• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
• Being stuck in a confined environment with really really really dumb people for eternity
  
• Where would you like to live?
• Where my loved one(s) is(are). But more selfishly - probably anywhere/everywhere for a little bit of time... would like to retire in Venice.
  
• What is your idea of earthly happiness?
• Being with my wonderful husband and being able to do what I want (ie. at the moment it's studying psychology)... oh and of course knowing that members of my family and my friends are healthy and happy.
  
• To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
• Judging people too quickly and forgetting that I am also only human.
  
• Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
• Voland (the devil in Master & Margarita), main character in Hard to be God, Geoffrey de Peirak (from Angelique Marquise Des Anges).
• Who are your favorite characters in history?
• Tzarina Elizabeth of Russia (who hasn't executed a single person and changed her dresses every day), Akhenaton & Niffertitti (sp?)
  
• Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
• My Mum, Zoya, Anya, both my Grandmothers for being very kind, and all of my female friends for millions of reasons.
  
• Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
• Anjelika from Angelique Marquise Des Anges, Queen Margo (played by Isabelle Adjani), Amelie, the little girl in The City of lost Children (Judith Vittet), too many more
  
• Your favorite painter?
• Very many - pretty much all big classics - Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, van Eyck; pretty much all Russian classics - esp. Vrubel, Repin, Levitan; 20th century - Salvador Dali, Picasso (esp. pink and blue period).
  
• Your favorite musician?
• phoa - well here are probably most favourite ones at the moment, where I like more than one album - Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Tool, Alex Lloyd, Zemfira, Rammstein, Kino, Garbage, Jeff Buckley, Beatles...
  
• The quality you most admire in a man?
• Absence of macho-ness
  
• The quality you most admire in a woman?
• Ability to balance beauty with brains
  
• Your favorite virtue?
• Ability to treat every person as oneself
  
• Your favorite occupation?
• any that helps people
  
• Who would you have liked to be?
• me