Proust Questionnaire: Astrid's answers

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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:23:58 UTC Astrid answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To feel unwanted and unnecessary
Where would you like to live?: Where I am happy
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to be with people and pets I love and have time to spend with them
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Pride
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Scarlet Pimpernel, people who think differently and in favor of others' wellbeing
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Francois-Marie Arouet
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my mom
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Rose Hathaway, Princess Leia
Your favorite painter?: da Vinci
Your favorite musician?: Bach
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence, humor, compassion
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence, easy going attitude
Your favorite virtue?: the ability to be easygoing
Your favorite occupation?: reading
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone with the luxury of time
Your most marked characteristic?: quirkiness
What do you most value in your friends?: easy going compassion
What is your principle defect?: pride
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to lose my sense of who I am
What would you like to be?: a better version of myself
What is your favorite color?: calming colors
What is your favorite flower?: the ones that bloom
What is your favorite bird?: birds of prey
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Sharon Kay Penman, Voltaire,
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare, John Dunne, Shel Silverstein
Who are your heroes in real life?: my mom and dad
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eleanor of Aquitaine
What are your favorite names?: Inoffensive ones
What is it you most dislike?: Intolerance
What historical figures do you most despise?: intolerant ones
What event in military history do you most admire?: Battle of Trafalgar
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Telepathy
How would you like to die?: At the same time as my husband, peacefully in our sleep after 70 years together
What is your present state of mind?: Sleepy
What is your motto?: Never make a motto.

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