Proust Questionnaire: Rara's answers

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On Mon, 11 Jan 16 19:19:01 UTC Rara (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Not being understood at all
Where would you like to live?: In an open-minded community
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be able to have my family and friends around me, live a comfortable life, go hiking once in a while, read books, write prose and poetry.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Having multiple relationships at once and getting a kick out of it.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Laszlo Kreiszler and Hannibal Lecter
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Vlad Tepes, Jose Rizal
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Maura Isles, Jane Rizzoli
Your favorite painter?: Vincent van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Ludwig van Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, persistence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, grace, patience
Your favorite virtue?: All that is observed by everyone, the norm or the mores. The ones that do not hurt anyone.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, writing, and singing.
Who would you have liked to be?: Jose Rizal, a polyglot, a writer. Jack of all trades, and master of everything.
Your most marked characteristic?: Being a perfectionist, my ever fluctuating self-esteem.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty and wisdom. Their ability to tell in my face that I am or have been a terrible person.
What is your principle defect?: Lack of wisdom, lack of tact.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have lost my family and my husband.
What would you like to be?: A better version of myself--someone who is wiser and has more initiative.
What is your favorite color?: Black.
What is your favorite flower?: A black calla lily.
What is your favorite bird?: The raven.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Edgar Allan Poe
Who are your favorite poets?: Edgar Allan Poe
Who are your heroes in real life?: Nobody... I had no role model.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I don't have one.
What are your favorite names?: Alistair
What is it you most dislike?: Feeling of emptiness and filling it with hurting those I love.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Mehmet II
What event in military history do you most admire?: That Japanese soldier who stayed in the woods for about two decades thinking that the war wasn't over.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Elegance and self-control.
How would you like to die?: To be remembered as a good wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend.
What is your present state of mind?: Completely empty and numb, also a little frustrated.
What is your motto?: I have no motto at all.

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