Proust Questionnaire: Amber's answers

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On Sat, 15 Aug 15 19:24:21 UTC Amber (37) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose the people I love
Where would you like to live?: In a city with history and culture
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be free to travel the world
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Excess
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Humbert Humbert, Gandalf, Florentino Ariza
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Elizabeth 1, Ann Boleyn, Jinnah, Che Guevera, Tipu Sultan
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother, Aunt Shamim, all the many many women I know who break with convention to live a life of their choice
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Isabel Archer,
Your favorite painter?: Edgar Degas
Your favorite musician?: A R Rahman
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, courage, sense of the absurd, curiosity, resilience
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, courage, sense of the absurd, curiosity, resilience
Your favorite virtue?: Forgiveness
Your favorite occupation?: Daydreaming, writing, reading
Who would you have liked to be?: Nobody else
Your most marked characteristic?: Empathy
What do you most value in your friends?: The ability to help me understand myself, sense of fun, loving, honesty
What is your principle defect?: The ability to see all sides, inability to confront
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Same as above
What would you like to be?: Same as above
What is your favorite color?: All, depends on the contrasts
What is your favorite flower?: Laburnum
What is your favorite bird?: None
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Marquez, Henry James, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Hillary Mantel, Alice Munroe, Fitzgerald, Woolf
Who are your favorite poets?: Ghalib, Sylvia Plath
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth 1 and Ann Boleyn
What are your favorite names?: None
What is it you most dislike?: Pretentiousness and self deception
What historical figures do you most despise?: Pol Pot, Stalin
What event in military history do you most admire?: None, hate war
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To sing well
How would you like to die?: Suddenly
What is your present state of mind?: Having to think so much for this questionnaire
What is your motto?: Tomorrow is another day

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