Proust Questionnaire: Caroline's answers

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On Tue, 26 May 2009 04:50:00 UTC Caroline (38) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To know love unreturned.
Where would you like to live?: In both Paris and the south of France.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Focused time with something or someone I love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Avoidance.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: "those who are the expression of an ideal"
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Barack Obama
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Merrilee Smith, Marin Alsop
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are fearless.
Your favorite painter?: Jacques Louis David
Your favorite musician?: Glenn Gould
The quality you most admire in a man?: Cheerfulness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Perseverance.
Your favorite virtue?: Open-mindedness
Your favorite occupation?: Exploring an idea.
Who would you have liked to be?: A principle violist in a major symphony orchestra.
Your most marked characteristic?: Authenticity.
What do you most value in your friends?: The ability to express themselves honestly.
What is your principle defect?: Impatience.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To feel hopeless.
What would you like to be?: Myself, to the best of my ability.
What is your favorite color?: Green in springtime.
What is your favorite flower?: The ginger lily.
What is your favorite bird?: The male cardinal.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde
Who are your favorite poets?: Rainer Maria Rilke, Lao Tzu
Who are your heroes in real life?: All of my mothers.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sojourner Truth
What are your favorite names?: Cedric, Helen, Pierre, Tom
What is it you most dislike?: Arrogance.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Declaration of Independence
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Photographic memory and versatile brilliance.
How would you like to die?: Swiftly, painlessly and unexpectedly in my sleep when I'm 100.
What is your present state of mind?: The desire for more time.
What is your motto?: Above all, have a good time.

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