Proust Questionnaire: Genie's answers

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On Tue, 12 Jan 16 08:10:41 UTC Genie (58) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: losing a child
Where would you like to live?: seaside
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to live with loved ones in material comfort next to a beautiful and natural setting
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: junk food
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Frodo, Genji, Neo, Iorek Byrnison, Hanuman, Odysseus
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Ghandi, Frederick Douglas, Fred Astaire
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Indira Ghandi, Florence Nightingale, Jane Goodall, Joan of Arc
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: brave and feminine women
Your favorite painter?: Chagall
Your favorite musician?: Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?: emotional Intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: emotional intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: compassion
Your favorite occupation?: surfing, being in the sun
Who would you have liked to be?: I wouldn't change, but if I had to: Doris Duke
Your most marked characteristic?: calmness
What do you most value in your friends?: loyalty
What is your principle defect?: melancholy
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: not to have known my son
What would you like to be?: In the present
What is your favorite color?: green
What is your favorite flower?: rose
What is your favorite bird?: Koa'e kea
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Shakespeare, James Joyce
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare, Robert Frost
Who are your heroes in real life?: Mom, Baby Daddy, Son
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Indira Ghandi, Florence Nightingale
What are your favorite names?: too many to list
What is it you most dislike?: cruelty
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jung Il
What event in military history do you most admire?: Spartans holding off the Romans
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: natural-born dancer, singer and play a guitar and/or piano
How would you like to die?: peacefully
What is your present state of mind?: contemplative
What is your motto?: just BE

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