Proust Questionnaire: Isolde's answers

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On Fri, 16 Nov 12 00:24:39 UTC Isolde (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Human suffering, genocides.
Where would you like to live?: Anywhere that will accept me and I can accept.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Beauty, literature, and music with my friends.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Arrogance and capriciousness.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Byronic ones and metaphorical ones.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Oscar Wilde, Alan Turing, Kurt Vonnegut, Niels Bohr, and Sir Arthur Conan Coyle in no particular order.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who are intelligent and think for themselves, those who are selfless.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Sibyl Vane and Irene Adler.
Your favorite painter?: Gustav Klimt
Your favorite musician?: Ralph Vaughan Williams
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, appreciation of aesthetics, morality.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: The same as above.
Your favorite virtue?: Loyalty.
Your favorite occupation?: Composer.
Who would you have liked to be?: Albert Camus or Claude Debussy.
Your most marked characteristic?: A sort of deep-set romanticism combined with a love of science.
What do you most value in your friends?: Compassion and intelligence.
What is your principle defect?: Petulance and the inability to understand most people.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be trapped eternally.
What would you like to be?: Myself.
What is your favorite color?: Cerulean.
What is your favorite flower?: Forsythia, it seems like a kindred flower-spirit. If that's possible?
What is your favorite bird?: The nightingale.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Oscar Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce
Who are your favorite poets?: Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes
Who are your heroes in real life?: My teachers
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Hildegard von Bingen and Hannie Schaft
What are your favorite names?: Johanna, Isolde, Adele
What is it you most dislike?: My lack of self-esteen
What historical figures do you most despise?: Oppressors and especially committors of genocide.
What event in military history do you most admire?: None, since war can never lead to good.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Beauty or self-esteem.
How would you like to die?: Peacefully and surrounded with love.
What is your present state of mind?: Philosophical.
What is your motto?: You much create your own truth.

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