Proust Questionnaire: I's answers

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On Wed, 05 Jun 13 12:38:21 UTC I answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To take the beautiful things in life for granted.
Where would you like to live?: In a country where time is not counted by clocks, rather by the sky and those around you.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be loved, and love in return.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My ability to worship material possessions and money.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who put others before themselves.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Stephen Spielberg.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman who can out-talk a man of genius at any social occasion.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: People who are woman, act life men but are still in every way feminine and lovely.
Your favorite painter?: Salvatore Dali.
Your favorite musician?: Eva Cassidy.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Gentleness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence.
Your favorite virtue?: Patience.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, dreaming, counting stars.
Who would you have liked to be?: An inspiration to a child.
Your most marked characteristic?: Gentleness with a sharp edge.
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness.
What is your principle defect?: Weakness and lack of will.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not have been given the gift of a listener.
What would you like to be?: Myself, in a brighter light.
What is your favorite color?: Those painted on things or people that I love.
What is your favorite flower?: Every flower that is more beautiful when it is wilting, rather than growing.
What is your favorite bird?: The Dove.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Lemony Snicket, J.K. Rowling, Scott Fitzgerald.
Who are your favorite poets?: John Keats.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Anyone who can hold themselves with grace while sad.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Any woman who does a better man's job than a man.
What are your favorite names?: Anything ending with 'a'.
What is it you most dislike?: Impatience. The need to be fast at useless things.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those who were selfish.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I do not know.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The gift of storytelling.
How would you like to die?: Surrounded by those I love and who love me in return.
What is your present state of mind?: Tired.
What is your motto?: I do not have one... yet.

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