Proust Questionnaire: Genevieve's answers

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On Sun, 31 May 2009 09:32:27 UTC Genevieve (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To not reach my true potential.
Where would you like to live?: Where cell phones are a rarity.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be sipping on a coffee, while reading a book.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Self loathing and procrastination.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Atticus Finch.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates, Marcel Proust, Epicurus, Charles Darwin.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My grandmother.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Penelope of The Odyssey.
Your favorite painter?: Da Vinci.
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Quiet dignity.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence.
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, listening to music, gazing into the sky.
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone who could write a novel that's worth giving a damn.
Your most marked characteristic?: I can be very rude to the people that only mean me well.
What do you most value in your friends?: To be humble and caring.
What is your principle defect?: Self loathing and lack of confidence.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be homeless.
What would you like to be?: A doctor.
What is your favorite color?: Green.
What is your favorite flower?: The rose.
What is your favorite bird?: The crow.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Proust, Dostoevsky, Nabokov.
Who are your favorite poets?: Homer.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My grandmother.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: -
What are your favorite names?: Genevieve and James.
What is it you most dislike?: Willful ignorance.
What historical figures do you most despise?: There are way too many to list.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Churchill's speech that announced the end of the Nazi virus.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Boundless intelligence.
How would you like to die?: A much wiser man than I am now.
What is your present state of mind?: Scatterbrained and dishevelled.
What is your motto?: Sleep on it.

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