{"id":1366,"date":"2025-02-11T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ferri-benedetti.ch\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:17:53","slug":"my-proust-questionnaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ferri-benedetti.ch\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"My Proust Questionnaire :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Proust Questionnaire by Flavio\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?<\/strong>
    Having no pending duties on a free day with my husband.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. What is your greatest fear?<\/strong>
    War, hunger, the end of drinking water.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?<\/strong>
    Stubbornness and over-sensitiveness to criticism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?<\/strong>
    Rudeness, selfishness, loudness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Which living person do you most admire?<\/strong>
    Anybody who fights adversity and follows a dream.
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  6. What is your greatest extravagance?<\/strong>
    Clothes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. What is your current state of mind?<\/strong>
    Feeling busy, multitasking, excited about what’s coming, loved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?<\/strong>
    (False) modesty, (false) ascetism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. On what occasion do you lie?<\/strong>
    When I am sure the truth will hurt the person in front of me. But then more omitting than lying.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?<\/strong>
    My hair is never as perfect as I would like it to be. Otherwise, I am pretty happy about my body.
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  11. Which living person do you most despise?<\/strong>
    Autocratic, fascist, homophobic, patriarchal leaders of some countries – we all know the names.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. What is the quality you most like in a man?<\/strong>
    Kindness, tenderness, strength.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?<\/strong>
    Kindness, tenderness, strength.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?<\/strong>
    “Sorry!” and “Thank you!” – hundreds of times a day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?<\/strong>
    My husband.
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  16. When and where were you happiest?<\/strong>
    Right now.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Which talent would you most like to have?<\/strong>
    Being sporty\/athletic\/fit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?<\/strong>
    I cannot regret even my bad moments of the past – they taught me something. I am what I am. But I’d like to be less nervous, less anxious, less worried about things in general.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?<\/strong>
    That I did everything I wanted to do in my life, paying for it, but never compromising – and that I still have so many things I want to do in life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?<\/strong>
    Either a river or a flying animal, probably an eagle.
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  21. Where would you most like to live?<\/strong>
    Wherever my heart is, it’s home.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. What is your most treasured possession?<\/strong>
    If you mean an object: I would choose symbolically – anything from my childhood, even a little toy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?<\/strong>
    The dark chasm of depression.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. What is your favorite occupation?<\/strong>
    Teaching, reading, playing with computers, cooking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. What is your most marked characteristic?<\/strong>
    I am transparent.
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  26. What do you most value in your friends?<\/strong>
    Kindness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. Who are your favorite writers?<\/strong>
    Metastasio, Petrarca, Austen, the Bront\u00ebs, difficult to choose. The classics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Who is your hero of fiction?<\/strong>
    Cyrano de Bergerac.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?<\/strong>
    I cannot think of any in particular, but surely one that fought for rights and inclusion, often breaking boundaries. I like strong, independent women in history.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. Who are your heroes in real life?<\/strong>
    Anybody who fights adversities to do something and become someone, without losing his\/her\/their integrity, honesty, passion, and kindness.
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  31. What are your favorite names?<\/strong>
    Vincenzo, Laura.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. What is it that you most dislike?<\/strong>
    Rudeness, loud noise, crowds, inhumanity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  33. What is your greatest regret?<\/strong>
    Having disrespected and hurt myself in the past – that’s over.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  34. How would you like to die?<\/strong>
    Having the certainty that everything is settled for those around me – otherwise I wouldn’t be able to close my eyes. And in my sleep, after having prayed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  35. What is your motto?<\/strong>
    “Extende manum tuam” – from Matthew 12. Open your hand – and it will be healed.
    In the past, it was also “Sed canit inter opus” from Tibullus (I think): “He sings even in chains.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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