Proust Questionnaire: Abby's answers

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On Thu, 04 Aug 16 17:25:26 UTC Abby (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Want of suicide.
Where would you like to live?: In a small cottage in Europe.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: In the bosom of my family.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The men who change their fate after being desperately unhappy.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, John Updike.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Grammy
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Strong, independent women, dynamic and complex.
Your favorite painter?: Edward Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Smetana
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty, sensitivity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Clemency and independence
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Reading
Who would you have liked to be?: After years of struggling, I like the woman I've become and wish to be no one else but me.
Your most marked characteristic?: Bold and headstrong, loved by children and nature.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty and humor.
What is your principle defect?: I'm a pushover
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never tell Nikola that I love him
What would you like to be?: Myself
What is your favorite color?: The sky at twilight or sunrise
What is your favorite flower?: Gardenias!
What is your favorite bird?: The nightingale
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Lauren Groff, Leo Tolstoy, and John Updike
Who are your favorite poets?: Pablo Neruda
Who are your heroes in real life?: Grammy and my father
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Hedy Lamarr
What are your favorite names?: Nikola, Betsy, Francis, Henry
What is it you most dislike?: Violence and war
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler, Mussolini
What event in military history do you most admire?: When the troops saved Paris after WW2
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Grace
How would you like to die?: In the arms of my husband
What is your present state of mind?: Blank
What is your motto?: I don't have one

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