At age 22:

• What is your most marked characteristic?

I care. I care about people, about humanity, about the world. I want to change the world for good.

• What is the quality you most like in a man?

If he sets me free, if I can behave completely natural next to him.

• What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Being graceful and knowing how much to reveal.

• What do you most value in your friends?

They can cheer me up, they can show me there is hope, they can make me connected to the world.

• What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

My lack of inhibition: telling things I shouldn't.

• What is your favorite occupation?

Looking of something unspoiled. Feeling nature and life "on my skin".

• What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Who knows the answer, doesn't understand the question :) But seriously, a day which passes by with joy. I see a seacoast, relaxing, playing in the water, eating fruits and good food. Loving your friends, family, your partner. Whoever is with you. Reading a nice book. Listening to the wind. Finding shapes in the clouds.

• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Being ignorant of how wonderful the world is. Hating strangers. Not trusting other people. Not letting anyone or anything in.

• In which country would you like to live?

I like Hungary, but still, I have this bucket list with the US (New York), Sweden (Stockholm) and now even the Netherlands (Amsterdam). I'd like to spend some months on Bali and discover South America.

• Who are your favorite writers?

Hardest question ever. Joanne Harris still mesmerizes me. I wasn't reading much fiction lately, so I guess it's still Örkény, Karinthy, Nádas, Szerb, Eco & Kosztolányi.

• Who are your favorite poets?

Oh, man! Závada Peti, Petri György, József Attila.

• Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

Esti Kornél :)

• Who is your favorite heroine of fiction?

Vianne Rocher.

• Who are your favorite composers?

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• Who are your favorite painters?

See my list.

• What are your favorite names?

See my list.

• What is it that you most dislike?

When people don't fulfill their dreams because of fear.

• Which talent would you most like to have?

Saying appropriate and charming things all the time. Asking smart questions. Knowing what to say to a miserable person.

• How would you like to die?

Making a trace after myself. Concretely, in peace, sleeping.

• What is your current state of mind?

I'm relaxed and motivated to change my body and build my future as I want it to be.

• What is your motto?

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." — Howard Thurman

At age 20:

• What is your most marked characteristic?
• I'm strange, but caring and interesting. Also supersensitive.
• What quality do you most like in a man?
• Intelligence. Emotional and artistic included.
• What quality do you most like in a woman?
• Gracfulness, empathy, but also motivation to fulfill life.
• What do you value most in your friends?
• Honesty. Helpfulness. Love.
• What is your principal defect?
• I'm both awkward and harsh. Sometimes not paying enough attention, sometimes too much.
• What is your favorite occupation?
• Counting the ants on the floor. Sleeping. Sex. Intimate conversations.
• What is your dream of happiness?
• Everyday life, but every day a new miracle. Just a small one. Children. No pressure. A cat. A soulmate.
• What to your mind would be the greatest misfortune?
• If I would lose my loved ones. Dead or alive, they may cease being a human being.
• What would you like to be?
• Me? I wouldn't change a thing. Maybe a few pounds minus, but that's all. I like my personality.
• In what country would you like to live?
• I'd love to live in a capital. Stockholm. London. Budapest without the mean people.
• What is your favorite color?
• Skyblue.
• What is your favorite flower?
• Tulip.
• What is your favorite bird?
• Don't really have one. Maybe the swallow.
• Who are your favorite prose writers?
• Don't really have >favorites<. Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, Örkény István, Szerb Antal, Szabó Magda, Joanne Harris, Nádas Péter are coming to my mind.
• Who are your favorite poets?
• Even harder. I don't really read poems. Don't know why. However, József Attila, Pilinszky János, Nemes Nagy Ágnes, Baudelaire, Petri György are close to me.
• Who are your favorite fictional heros?
• Sün Balázs. Mulan! Mickey Mouse. Po.
• Who are your favorite fictional heroines?
• Don't have, either. I have the type of 'intellectual explorers' (Sherlock Holmes, Bátky János, William of Baskerville). Also like superpowers and witches.
• Who are your favorite composers?
• It's a shame, but I don't know much of them. Haydn, Bach, Philip Glass.
• Who are your favorite painters?
• I have a whole list of them below.
• Who are your heroes in real life?
• I look up to a girl from my university. I admire my first love. I think my biggest hero is my mum, despite of her change in behavior.
• Who are your favorite heroines of history?
• People who made something extraordinary together. Also geniuses. But not the kings, that's for sure.
• What are your favorite names?
• Have a list of them, too.
• What do you most dislike?
• Have a list of them, as well :)
• What historical figures do you most despise?
• Omg, I have no idea. The stereotypical answer is Hitler, but hey, there were people who made him possible to go nuts. Also the 'modern men' who are (politically) extremists.
• What event in military history do you most admire?
• What? I hate wars.
• What reform do you most admire?
• What's good for education is good for people.
• What natural gift would you most like to possess?
• Freckles :) OK, being able to read others mind from their eyes. Always knowing the appropriate answer.
• How would you like to die?
• In silence. Sleeping. Peacefully, calmly, quietly.
• What is your present state of mind?
• Want to create something good.
• To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
• Selfishness. Forgiving too easily. Greediness (sometimes). Wanting to know everything. Telling too much.
• What is your motto?
• To do something is always better than not to do.