Proust Questionnaire: R's answers

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On Fri, 05 Dec 14 23:54:39 UTC R (50) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The unexpected and untimely death of a loved one.
Where would you like to live?: anyplace unpopulated and unspoiled by the masses i.o.w. a pristine rural area
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To love and to be loved in return by the one I love.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: the desire for Chanel - all things Chanel.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Dostoyevsky's protaganist(s)
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Lev Myshkin and Hugo's Jean Valjean
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mother Theresa, Audrey Hepburn, Alice Paul
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Karen Blixen
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: a skilled guitarist such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: honesty
Your favorite occupation?: listening to music
Who would you have liked to be?: I would have liked to be the physician or scientist that discovers the cure for cancer.
Your most marked characteristic?: tenacity
What do you most value in your friends?: loyalty
What is your principle defect?: impatience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have never experienced love
What would you like to be?: the best of myself possible
What is your favorite color?: at the moment, cerulean
What is your favorite flower?: daffodil
What is your favorite bird?: the mockingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: unknown
Who are your favorite poets?: Pablo Neruda
Who are your heroes in real life?: my mother, Mother Theresa, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg, Angelina Jolie for her beauty and compassion
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, Madame Curie, female scientists,
What are your favorite names?: My love's name
What is it you most dislike?: narrow mindedness
What historical figures do you most despise?: It is my goal to refrain from hatred.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The battle of Thermopoli
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: extraordinary intelligence
How would you like to die?: quickly, doing what I love
What is your present state of mind?: peaceful and calm
What is your motto?: no comment LOL

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