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On Tue, 26 Mar 13 23:29:26 UTC MFSmith (16) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To be alone, without friends or family
Where would you like to live?
Beside the sea
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To be surrounded by those you love and who love you, to always have books, and something purposeful to do
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
The ones shared by other people, i.e., gossip
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Those who are strong and independent and always kind to others
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Socrates, Einstein, Darwin, Queen Elizabeth
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Kind, smart women with a good sense of humor
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Women who are independent, brave, and do their own thing
Your favorite painter?
Monet
Your favorite musician?
Tchaikovsky
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence and kindness
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Intelligence and kindness
Your favorite virtue?
Kindness
Your favorite occupation?
Reading, writing, talking to friends
Who would you have liked to be?
What I hope to be now and in the future--someone respected and admired
Your most marked characteristic?
Passionate with opinions
What do you most value in your friends?
Intelligence and a sense of what is right and wrong
What is your principle defect?
Being very critical
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To be alone
What would you like to be?
Someone admired and respected and well liked
What is your favorite color?
blue
What is your favorite flower?
hydrangeas
What is your favorite bird?
hawk
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Leo Tolstoy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad
Who are your favorite poets?
Edgar Allen Poe, John Donne
Who are your heroes in real life?
Those fighting for what is right
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Queen Elizabeth
What are your favorite names?
Those of the people I love
What is it you most dislike?
Those who judge other people to be lesser than themselves for arbitrary reasons
What historical figures do you most despise?
Adolf Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?
None, since there are few, if any, that did not cause death
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Effortless charisma
How would you like to die?
Old, warm, and beloved
What is your present state of mind?
Happy but stressed
What is your motto?
Touch not the cat, but the gloves

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