Proust Questionnaire: Joana's answers

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On Fri, 19 Oct 12 11:53:11 UTC Joana (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Not believing in yourself.
Where would you like to live?: London.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Being surrounded by people I love.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Pride.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Andre Bolkonski, Harry Potter.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Afonso Henriques, Hipocrates, Alexander Fleming, Robert Virchow
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: doctors.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are truthful, authentic.
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Justice, ethics, intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Kindness, intelligence, strenght.
Your favorite virtue?: Fairness
Your favorite occupation?: reading
Who would you have liked to be?: Me, only better than I am.
Your most marked characteristic?: Fairness, honesty.
What do you most value in your friends?: Sensibility.
What is your principle defect?: Indulgence.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: suffering from a chronic, disabiliting desease.
What would you like to be?: Better than I am.
What is your favorite color?: Red, white.
What is your favorite flower?: Lily
What is your favorite bird?: Nightingale
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Tolstoi, Eça de Queirós
Who are your favorite poets?: Camões, Pessoa, Yeats.
Who are your heroes in real life?: doctors.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I.
What are your favorite names?: James, William, Iris, Helen.
What is it you most dislike?: Injustice, cinicism.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Napoleon, Mussolini, Salazar.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Any war.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Estoicism
How would you like to die?: Suddenly with as less pain as possible.
What is your present state of mind?: Peaceful.
What is your motto?: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken.

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