Proust Questionnaire: Mary's answers

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On Sun, 10 Jul 16 08:16:08 UTC Mary (56) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being disowned by a Mother.
Where would you like to live?: Hawai'i
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: lBeing independent and doing work one loves.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those that come out with a happy ending.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Montaigne, Siddharta.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Pamela Harriman, Queen Elizabeth.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jane Eyre, Emma Bovary.
Your favorite painter?: Salvador Dali, Tintoretto, Caravaggio.
Your favorite musician?: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, great sense of humor.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Smarts, self-sufficient.
Your favorite virtue?: Goodness, integrity.
Your favorite occupation?: Writing, daydreaming.
Who would you have liked to be?: President of a country.
Your most marked characteristic?: Kind, compassionate, independent.
What do you most value in your friends?: Being understanding, loyal.
What is your principle defect?: Too nice, always assuming people to be upright.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Where people can't have their on free will.
What would you like to be?: Totally independent.
What is your favorite color?: Purple.
What is your favorite flower?: Hyacint.
What is your favorite bird?: Toucan.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Mann.
Who are your favorite poets?: Villon.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Bathori Istvan.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Sappho, Anais Nin.
What are your favorite names?: Alexander, Benoit, Sone, Menton.
What is it you most dislike?: Suffering.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Gilles de Rais, Caligula.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Strength.
How would you like to die?: In my sleep.
What is your present state of mind?: Alert, alive.
What is your motto?: Live and let live.

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