Proust Questionnaire: Emilia Blancarte Jaber's answers

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On Fri, 25 Oct 13 04:56:18 UTC Emilia Blancarte Jaber answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Disapointment in one's self.
Where would you like to live?: New York City. The City where sarcasm never sleeps.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Sitting down for a good drink and a stimulating conversation.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Lack of will power.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Mikhail Gorbachev and Mohammad Mossadegh
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Every woman who contests her place in the status quo.
Your favorite painter?: Henri Matisse
Your favorite musician?: Belle & Sebastian
The quality you most admire in a man?: Self-assurance, not to be mistaken for arrogance or hubris.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: I don't see the need to differentiate by gender.
Your favorite virtue?: Genuine honesty about one's opinions.
Your favorite occupation?: Thinking.
Who would you have liked to be?: I'm pretty set in my own ways.
Your most marked characteristic?: I've been known to be very assertive. Sometimes too much so.
What do you most value in your friends?: Genuine honesty about one's opinion.
What is your principle defect?: I judge people by a moral standard to which even I cannot adhere.
What would you like to be?: Successful.
What is your favorite color?: Colors are most appealing when they are combined.
What is your favorite flower?: Paeonia.
What is your favorite bird?: None in particular.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Milan Kundera.
Who are your favorite poets?: Leonard Cohen
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother.
What are your favorite names?: I've yet to find a name that satisfactorily breaks the mould of gender and ethnicity.
What is it you most dislike?: Conformism to social conventions.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Far too many people to even begin to process this question.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I do not admire military history.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power.
How would you like to die?: In a very ridiculous manner.
What is your present state of mind?: Sleepy.
What is your motto?: I have yet to find one.

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