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On Mon, 09 Jan 12 00:53:48 UTC Masha Shannon (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To be rightfully filled with guilt
Where would you like to live?
In a home
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To live passionately and without regret, to make beauty and reveal truth, to cultivate deep friendships, to know real love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
To hibernate and withdraw from the world
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Faust, and others who strive
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Catherine the Great, Elizabeth, Bakunin, Bulgakov, Hemingway, Marie Antoinette, and Josephine Baker
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Unafraid women
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Unafraid women rarely make the pages of fine fiction. But some exist who conquer their fears through strife or revelation, or those who are afraid but endure just the same.
Your favorite painter?
Kandinsky
Your favorite musician?
Bowie, which is entirely appropriate, considering today is his 65th birthday
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence, embrace of joie de vivre, courage
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Intelligence, courage, embrace of joie de vivre
Your favorite virtue?
Compassion
Your favorite occupation?
Daydreaming, fighting, loving
Who would you have liked to be?
Proust, obviously. In all truth, though, I would have liked to try out Catherine the Great's near scandalous life.
Your most marked characteristic?
Wanderlust
What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty, laughter
What is your principle defect?
Difficulty enjoying small pleasures
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To have lived in a state of melancholy for things that might have been
What would you like to be?
An explorer of the world
What is your favorite color?
Red, the color of passion, life, and death
What is your favorite flower?
Snapdragon
What is your favorite bird?
I have a special place in my heart for the small but tough chickadee
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Sedaris, Jonathan Safran Foer
Who are your favorite poets?
Pushkin, Akhmatova
Who are your heroes in real life?
I am not sure they exist anymore
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Catherine the Great, Cleopatra (as Proust answered and thus inspired me to think of her as a heroine)
What are your favorite names?
Names of my favorite people
What is it you most dislike?
Underdressing, fear and regret
What historical figures do you most despise?
Clearly Hitler and Stalin
What event in military history do you most admire?
Russian self-sufficiency during the Siege of Leningrad
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Will power
How would you like to die?
In peace, and with a contented soul
What is your present state of mind?
Relaxed
What is your motto?
No gods, no managers, no mottos!

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