Proust Questionnaire: Amber's answers

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On Sun, 24 Feb 13 17:25:37 UTC Amber (18) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Complete emptiness.
Where would you like to live?: Far away.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To wake up genuinely smiling.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Self-pity.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The perfect man.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Miep Gies, Rosa Parks, Bonnie Parker and Odette Sansom.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those whose strength makes me feel like crying.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Idgie Threadgoode, the 2nd Mrs de Winter
Your favorite painter?: Camille Corot
Your favorite musician?: Ani DiFranco/Suzanne Vega/Annie Lennox.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Gentle manliness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strange beauty.
Your favorite virtue?: Generosity.
Your favorite occupation?: Becoming lost in music.
Who would you have liked to be?: Truly alive.
Your most marked characteristic?: Constantly thinking of problems that could but mostly don't arise.
What do you most value in your friends?: That they love me as I love them.
What is your principle defect?: A tendency to become completely depressed.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not spend days investigating music.
What would you like to be?: Interesting.
What is your favorite color?: Purple.
What is your favorite flower?: Forget-me-nots.
What is your favorite bird?: Sparrow.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Daphne du Maurier.
Who are your favorite poets?: Wilfred Owen.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Ani DiFranco, my grandmother.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Any woman who became extraordinary during the Holocaust to help all she could.
What are your favorite names?: Ones that hold mystery.
What is it you most dislike?: What I see in the mirror.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Himmler.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Any that were for the best reasons.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Underlying beauty that you can't put your finger on.
How would you like to die?: Happy.
What is your present state of mind?: Just below melancholy.
What is your motto?: This too shall pass.

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