Proust Questionnaire: Wren's answers

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On Tue, 12 Jan 16 08:03:03 UTC Wren (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be without human love
Where would you like to live?: Heaven
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be connected with loving people and to experience the beauties of creation and the arts.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Sloth, self-deprecation, inaction, selfishness, overindulgence
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Ones who overcome personal and/or temperamental obstacles in order to pursue worthy ideals
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Ones who are more human than legend, especially those who seem to share some of my own traits
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who are beautifully intelligent, creative, and most of all kind
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who show strength without being caricatured as "tough"
Your favorite painter?: Cannot for the life of me decide. I do like Van Gogh.
Your favorite musician?: Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff; Josh Ritter, Gregory Alan Isakov, Joni Mitchell, Iron & Wine, Sleeping At Last, Radical Face, Laura Marling, The Oh Hellos
The quality you most admire in a man?: Kindness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Confidence paired with modesty
Your favorite virtue?: Not certain
Your favorite occupation?: Creating art of all kinds, dancing, acting, reading, writing, making music
Who would you have liked to be?: No one but myself, really.
Your most marked characteristic?: A tendency to minimize conflict, which makes me appear amiable and easygoing but in reality creates more problems than can be handled
What do you most value in your friends?: Compassion
What is your principle defect?: Overprotecting personal "peace" to the detriment of myself and others
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never been loved
What would you like to be?: The best version of myself
What is your favorite color?: Deep burgundy or fairyland violet
What is your favorite flower?: Lavender or lilac
What is your favorite bird?: I loves birds: sparrows, swallows, hawks, wrens.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Flannery O'Connor, Anthony Doerr, Mark Richard, Charles Dickens, Annie Proulx, L. M. Montgomery, George Saunders, William Faulkner, and many more
Who are your favorite poets?: Dana Gioia, A. E. Stallings, Charles Simic, more I've forgotten
Who are your heroes in real life?: My parents and grandparents
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I know most people simply know her as an actress, but she did some incredibly brave things growing up and more to the point I just always thought that the two of us should have been good friends: Audrey Hepburn.
What are your favorite names?: Terence, Lorraine, Lorena, Fiona, Shane
What is it you most dislike?: My natural stupidities
What historical figures do you most despise?: Can't say
What event in military history do you most admire?: I have no knowledge in this area
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Strength of will and interpersonal easiness
How would you like to die?: Surrounded by loved ones and at least half as proud of myself as they are of me
What is your present state of mind?: Sleepy
What is your motto?: I don't have one

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