Proust Questionnaire: Gionna's answers

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On Sun, 26 Sep 10 11:16:43 UTC Gionna (28) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose all hope and fear of the gift of life.
Where would you like to live?: New York City, or Basel, Switzerland.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be productive in a healthy society where there is balance in culture in prusuit of growth in commerce and education, and general concern for the environment.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To admiring beauty and desiring excess.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: King Arthur of Camelot.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Cleopatra, Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, and St. Augustine.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A person filled of passion and one who aims for precision.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Gaia, Athena, and Hera.
Your favorite painter?: Gustav Klimt and Diego Velasquez.
Your favorite musician?: Bach.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence and compassion.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Graciousness and sophistication.
Your favorite virtue?: Prudence.
Your favorite occupation?: Being in publications and as a news/travel reporter.
Who would you have liked to be?: I would like to be Isabella Rosselini and Katharine Hephburn.
Your most marked characteristic?: Strong presence.
What do you most value in your friends?: Humor, charm, and tact.
What is your principle defect?: Indecisiveness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not reach my ideals because of fear and shame of nothing.
What would you like to be?: I would like to maximize my fullest potential as a woman and an intellectual.
What is your favorite color?: Emerald green. gold, vermillion, and midnight blue.
What is your favorite flower?: hydrangeas and tulips.
What is your favorite bird?: the peacock.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Anais Nin.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I.
What are your favorite names?: Alexandra, Claudia, Agatha, Monique.
What is it you most dislike?: Broken promises/oaths. Tardiness.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Nero and his cronies.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The downfall of the Axis powers.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power and youthful zeal.
How would you like to die?: Of old age.
What is your present state of mind?: Agitation on cramming.
What is your motto?: To make each day an opportunity for progress.

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