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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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