Proust Questionnaire: Jollie's answers

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On Sun, 14 Nov 10 21:57:41 UTC Jollie (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose hope. To feel completly powerless.
Where would you like to live?: In a worldly, hipster-ish universitary campus inhabited by intellectuals from all over the world.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Being in love with a kind man who pampers me; close friends who "get me";doing passionating work; books, talks and chocolate; having the time for little creative hobbies; travel from time to time.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To those caused by a honest attempt to do good and make things work between people.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull; that man named Bob from the Vagina Monologue "Because He Liked to Look At It".
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Epicurus, John Lennon.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Aung San Suu Kyi
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Isabel Allende's "Eva Luna", Dagny Taggart from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", Portia from Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice", Bridget Jones, Jerry Spinelli's "Stargirl", Fauna from John Steinbeck's "Sweet Thursday", Mari Asai from Murakami's "After Dark".
Your favorite painter?: Salvador Dalli, Mark Ryden
Your favorite musician?: Bono (U2)
The quality you most admire in a man?: The courage and willingness to explore his feminine side
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence and a sense of humour.
Your favorite virtue?: Optimism
Your favorite occupation?: talking to close friends/loved ones about deep, philosophical topics in humorous ways.
Who would you have liked to be?: A slightly curvier, more flirty, less chaotic version of myself
Your most marked characteristic?: Idealism.
What do you most value in your friends?: The common ground we have- by understanding life and the world in pretty much similar ways (but not overly so).
What is your principle defect?: I am EXTREMELY untidy and disorganised.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Being taught -and actually believing- that it is right/virtuous to despise yourself.
What would you like to be?: A happy person; and I guess I'm pretty much on the right track.
What is your favorite color?: Somewhere between orange and yellow... that-one that makes one think of ducklings. And pink.
What is your favorite flower?: Tulips- they're so friendly and cheerful :)
What is your favorite bird?: The parrot.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Isabel Allende, Anna Gavalda, Ayn Rand, John Steinbeck, Haruki Murakami
Who are your favorite poets?: Nichita Stanescu, Rives
Who are your heroes in real life?: A lot of amazing people I meet- who do stuff they believe in.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Rosa Parks, Simone de Beauvoir
What are your favorite names?: Clarisse, Eric, Sonia, Letitia, Lewis, Yolanda
What is it you most dislike?: Racism, xenophobia, homophobia or any other kind of altero-phobia. Also, any statement beginning with "Tradition dictates that..."
What historical figures do you most despise?: Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin-and all those who out of opportunism collaborated with them
What event in military history do you most admire?: That moment during World War I when soldiers forgot for one evening they were fighting against each other in a war that maybe wasn't even theirs- and celebrated Christmas together.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Intuition.
How would you like to die?: Old and happy
What is your present state of mind?: Tired but happy.
What is your motto?: If you treat people as what they are, you won't be doing them any good. But if you treat them as what they should be, you'll get them where they should go

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