Proust Questionnaire: Emilie's answers

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On Wed, 14 Dec 11 21:17:55 UTC Emilie (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be alone
Where would you like to live?: New England, in an old wooden house with a fairly big backyard and a bunch of maple trees and a very short driveway
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be loved and to love in all possible ways. To be emotionally engaged with the world.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: laziness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Hamlet, Jesus, Frodo, the Doctor
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Gandhi, Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Lyon, William Wilberforce, the Doctor
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Hillary Clinton, JK Rowling, Ophelia Dahl, Rabi'a, my mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Helen Magnus, Elizabeth Bennett, Amy Pond
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Bach
The quality you most admire in a man?: the ability to listen, wit, a nice butt (and a nice face!)
The quality you most admire in a woman?: strength of character, friendliness
Your favorite virtue?: kindness
Your favorite occupation?: reading, singing, sleeping
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone a bit more wealthy and a bit less prone to sloth
Your most marked characteristic?: a desire for solitude
What do you most value in your friends?: kindness
What is your principle defect?: I don't generally know what to do with myself
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to be an unhappy person
What would you like to be?: successful, loved, settled
What is your favorite color?: green
What is your favorite flower?: virburnum carlesii
What is your favorite bird?: the mockingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, Diane Duane
Who are your favorite poets?: Emily Dickinson; Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Who are your heroes in real life?: my father
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc
What are your favorite names?: I rather like my own name!
What is it you most dislike?: unkindness
What event in military history do you most admire?: I know very little about military history
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a disinclination to boredom and procrastination
How would you like to die?: very old, after little to no illness, quietly and with no pain. Surrounded by those I love.
What is your present state of mind?: kind of tired.
What is your motto?: I have none

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