He was asked a series of questions twice in his early life, once when 13, once when 20 and his answers are just as bright as the day they left his incandescent inner thoughts.
So youthquakers here are the 13 year old's answers to those questions. Here is the wonderful Proust Questionnaire. What are your thoughts? xoxo
To be separated from Mama
In the country of the Ideal, or, rather, of my ideal
To live in contact with those I love, with the beauties of nature, with a quantity of books and music, and to have, within easy distance, a French theater
To a life deprived of the works of genius
Those of romance and poetry, those who are the expression of an ideal rather than an imitation of the real
A mixture of Socrates, Pericles, Mahomet, Pliny the Younger and Augustin Thierry
A woman of genius leading an ordinary life
Those who are more than women without ceasing to be womanly; everything that is tender, poetic, pure and in every way beautiful
Meissonier
Mozart
Intelligence, moral sense
Gentleness, naturalness, intelligence
All virtues that are not limited to a sect: the universal virtues
Reading, dreaming, and writing verse
Since the question does not arise, I prefer not to answer it. All the same, I should very much have liked to be Pliny the Younger.
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