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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:46:03 UTC Mary (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Never talking to my friends again.
Where would you like to live?
NYC, for the activity, and Aix-en-Provence, for the calm.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Being around fun people on a sunny day.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
An inability to exercise any self-control.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
The ones who've suffered.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Picasso. Saw and/or did absolutely everything revolutionary in the 20th century.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
The woman who answers to herself.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Same.
Your favorite painter?
Cezanne, Wyeth, and sometimes Beckmann.
Your favorite musician?
Jay-Z.
The quality you most admire in a man?
Tolerance.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Confidence.
Your favorite virtue?
Self-awareness, truthfulness and gratitude.
Your favorite occupation?
Studying art.
Who would you have liked to be?
Berthe Morisot.
Your most marked characteristic?
The need to entertain and be entertained.
What do you most value in your friends?
Humour and kindness.
What is your principle defect?
Unwillingness to compromise.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Never leaving my hometown.
What would you like to be?
Someone worth admiring.
What is your favorite color?
A light grey.
What is your favorite flower?
Hydrangeas
Who are your favorite prose writers?
David Sedaris and Kurt Vonnegut
Who are your favorite poets?
Eliot
Who are your heroes in real life?
My mother, and Carol Small.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Catherine the Great.
What are your favorite names?
Margaret, Madeleine.
What is it you most dislike?
A really bad manager, or outfit.
What historical figures do you most despise?
I really think they all had a reason to exist. Hating them takes away the good that somehow came from them.
What event in military history do you most admire?
Guernica.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
The ability to be quieter.
How would you like to die?
Without a clue it's coming.
What is your present state of mind?
Restlessness, and yet also a fear of change.
What is your motto?
This too shall pass.

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