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On Fri, 11 Nov 16 04:53:48 UTC Marraine (40) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- to be controlled
- Where would you like to live?
- In the home I built with my own hands, on the batture
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Freedom and perhaps to shine a little light that shows others the way
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- excess
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- anyone who found their voice or their way
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Amelia Mary Earhart, Henriette DeLille
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Ameline, Maman, Elodie, my sister, my mother and hers
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Zora Neale Hurston's Janie Starks
- Your favorite painter?
- God and then maybe Frida Kahlo
- Your favorite musician?
- the wind blowing through leaves on broken branches
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- rough hands, a sound mind, and a soft heart
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- audacity, intelligence, and when reason permits- elan
- Your favorite virtue?
- love, grace
- Your favorite occupation?
- gardening, conjuring, dreaming
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Nothing other than what I have fought to become
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Courage and perhaps, being strong-willed
- What do you most value in your friends?
- honesty, kindness,
- What is your principle defect?
- stubbornness
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- to have given fear or shame a foothold
- What would you like to be?
- myself, authentically
- What is your favorite color?
- blue
- What is your favorite flower?
- hibiscus
- What is your favorite bird?
- hummingbird, ruby-throated in particular
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Simone de Beauvoir, Alexandre Dumas
- Who are your favorite poets?
- the poet and king David
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- I am my own hero
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Hadassah, Ruth, survivors who chose love
- What are your favorite names?
- I haven't known a name sweeter than Maman
- What is it you most dislike?
- rigidity, cowardice masquerading as grace
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- I don't spend my sacred energy that way
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- not even one
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- The ones I was given serve me just fine
- How would you like to die?
- fulfilled and empty, having fully exhausted everything God gave me
- What is your present state of mind?
- pleased to have completed this questionaire
- What is your motto?
- Laissez les bons temps rouler (let the good times roll)
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