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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. (Oscar Wilde)





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- In three words I am: open to anything.
- Where I’d like to live: somewhere different every year.
- What in my life I feel most grateful: having a good health.
- My favourite person in the universe is: my mother & father.
- My least favourite person in the universe is: She knows.
- My idea of perfect happiness: walking through a city for the first time not knowing what is around the next corner.
- The trait I most deplore in a man: irresponsability.
- The trait I most deplore in a woman: a fatal mixture of creative mess-making and stone-cold idiocy.
- The trait I most admire in a man: loyalty.
- The trait I most admire in a woman: Tenderness, natureness and frankness in friendship.
- The trait I most deplore in myself: sometimes unability to decide when I have too much to choose from.
- What I dislike most about my appearance: the hair beginning to disappear at my crown.
- What I consider my greatest achievement: maintaining 4 perfect longtime friendships.
- If I'd go back in time I'd set the clocks for: 1492, Granada. Spain.
- My greatest fear: having nothing to do.
- The last time I looked in the mirror I thought: not bad.
- If I had to leave a body part to science, it would be: my lungs.
- My definition of love: harmony.
- My motto: The 3 "R"s: Respect for yourself, Respect for the others and Responsibility for all your actions. Always!
- Favourite hero in real life: Noam Chomsky
- Favourite hero of fiction: Lord Henry Wotton
- The greatest lesson Life has thought me so far is: we fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
- How I would like to die: a better man than I am, and much beloved.
- I want my tombstone to read: I had such friends.

Age: 32
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INTERESTS:
Oh, photography..of course:) summers, travels, languages, sustainable living, friendships, other people's houses, swimming, books, eating out, chocolate, colours, ice-creams, the sea, wood, fruit smoothies, sunflowers, poppy fields, the smell of the countryside after rain.
Are welcome into my life people with interesting things to say. People who whatever they do they like to do it excellently. Creative, with an artistic temperament. People with some style, communicative, curious and with a sense of sharing..Cold fishes with numb insensitivity to this world we're living in would rather not sweat it. People always able to find a smile, with a sense of humour, responsible, honest, energetic, funny. All people that are not "small natures and mean minds" as Wilde called them; cheaters and false friends included of course, those you thought at first they were gems but splendidly turned out to be something you find under a rock and I had my share of those. People from MY planet over whom I don't have to sick explaining as if to someone living in another solar system, to a simple-minded or to a child who has misunderstood some very simple case of cause and effect, very basic things on life issues like friendship, like love etc..You take it for granted the world is full of those miserable souls but you don't fully comprehend this sinister fact until you bump into them.

FAVOURITE BOOKS AND AUTHORS:
Noam Chomsky, N.G. Finkelstein, Umberto Eco, Jean d'Ormesson, Maureen Dowd, Garisson Keillor from the New York Times, Mitch Albom and his great "The Five People You Meet In Heaven"; John Grisham, Stephen King (80% for the words, the rest for the story. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde(Because the world is divided in two: Those who have read the book and those who haven't!) "Shantaram" by David Gregory Roberts (A dream...Thank you Mette) POETS: Oscar Wilde.
MUSIC: Martha Wainwright, Amy MacDonald, these weeks listening to The Pet Shop Boys Concrete: In Concert at the Mermaid Theatre for Radio 2 with the BBC Concert Orchestra- Monday, May 8th, 2006...Listen to "Casanova In Hell" feat. Rufus Wainwright and die!. "I Eat Dinner (When The Hunger's Gone)" by Rufus Wainwright (again!) feat. Dido. Indie music, Electric pop; Pet Shop Boys, and more..



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