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On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:41:32 UTC Caroline (25) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To love no one
- Where would you like to live?
- 19th century Russia, as long as I were a member of the aristocracy
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To have nothing to be ashamed of, and to be surrounded by people I admire.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- To the faults that lonely people develop by trying to fight against their solitude
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Daniel D'Arthez, Michel Chrestien, the whole cenacle of Balzac
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- The sainly artists and sassy saints: Michelangelo, Raphael Sanzio, Teresa of Avila, Francis of Asissi
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Any woman who manages to both love and be happy
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Jane Eyre
- Your favorite painter?
- Raphael
- Your favorite musician?
- Chopin
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Self-control, integrity.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Empathy and intelligent compassion
- Your favorite virtue?
- Honesty
- Your favorite occupation?
- Writing fiction
- Who would you have liked to be?
- I would have made a good operatic mezzo-soprano
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Determination to be happy despite everything.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- An honest heart and a good sense of humor
- What is your principle defect?
- A high opinion of myself and of my own judgments of others.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To honestly believe that there was not one earthly reason why I existed.
- What would you like to be?
- A cellist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
- What is your favorite color?
- Any color that's full of light.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Glass ones, jewel ones, ones that last forever.
- What is your favorite bird?
- I don' t like birds.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Dostoyevsky, Balzac, Proust, Mauriac
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Ezra Pound
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Any man who manages to be a good man today; my grandfather.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Mary Magdalene
- What are your favorite names?
- Sophia and Dmitri
- What is it you most dislike?
- Being wrong
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- The obvious ones.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Treaties of all sorts.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Beauty
- How would you like to die?
- Instantly
- What is your present state of mind?
- Procrastinatory
- What is your motto?
- Beauty will save the world
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