Proust Questionnaire: Gabrielle's answers

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On Tue, 31 Jul 18 06:13:12 UTC Gabrielle (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Apathy.
Where would you like to live?: In people's hearts.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Fulfilling childhood dreams.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Hopeless romance.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The idealists, the hopeless romantics, and those who are redeemed by the end.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Leonardo da Vinci, all the Romantics of the 19th century.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Anyone involved in charity and human rights, especially in Third World countries.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Queens, courtesans, and virgins too pure for the world.
Your favorite painter?: Leonardo da Vinci.
Your favorite musician?: Michael Jackson.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Elegance, courage, tenderness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Warmth, protectiveness, generosity.
Your favorite virtue?: Charity.
Your favorite occupation?: Dreaming.
Who would you have liked to be?: Joan of Arc.
Your most marked characteristic?: I can't stop thinking deeply or feeling profoundly.
What do you most value in your friends?: Sincerity and patience.
What is your principle defect?: Lack of discipline.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be enslaved in any way.
What would you like to be?: A guardian angel, a martyr, a polymath, above all - a lover.
What is your favorite color?: Sometimes it's midnight blue, other times it's blood red.
What is your favorite flower?: Casablanca lily.
What is your favorite bird?: Crows are cool.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Is Oscar Wilde considered a prose writer? besides being a playwright?
Who are your favorite poets?: W.B. Yeats, Sylvia Plath.
Who are your heroes in real life?: I do not make heroes out of the living. But the closest thing to it would be Marilyn Manson.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, I guess.
What are your favorite names?: French ones have my heart... Sebastien, Genevieve, Madeleine, Angelique, León, Martine etc.
What is it you most dislike?: Exploitation for profit.
What historical figures do you most despise?: I really despise the colonists, especially of the Americas... also Pablo Picasso.
What event in military history do you most admire?: There is not a single admirable thing about the military.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Being good with kids.
How would you like to die?: I want to die for love, or as a result of love.
What is your present state of mind?: Sleep-deprived, racing, trying to distract myself.
What is your motto?: Empathy is enough.

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