Proust Questionnaire: alicja's answers

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On Tue, 12 Jan 16 09:44:36 UTC alicja (38) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being trapped and/or living in fear.
Where would you like to live?: Wherever I am loved.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Feeling secure and free to move.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To a general lack of patience.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The ones whose story doesn't merely end with a simple breakthrough.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Jeanne D'Arc, TR, FDR.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman who made her own path.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: A woman who knows when to walk away.
Your favorite painter?: Dali
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Kindness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Humor
Your favorite virtue?: Compassion
Your favorite occupation?: Running, acting, photography, listening to/playing music.
Who would you have liked to be?: More fully myself.
Your most marked characteristic?: My dark sense of humor.
What do you most value in your friends?: Kind support.
What is your principle defect?: Easily frustrated.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have met any number of brilliant, wonderful people who have taught me much.
What would you like to be?: The best version of myself.
What is your favorite color?: Whatever strikes me in the moment.
What is your favorite flower?: Any.
What is your favorite bird?: A hawk.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Huxley, Bradbury, Prus, Lem
Who are your favorite poets?: Milosz, Galczynski, Plath, Baudelaire
Who are your heroes in real life?: Any number of great teachers in my life.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Jeanne D'Arc, Queen Jadwiga, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marie Curie
What are your favorite names?: Ilana, Magda, Miriam, Arya
What is it you most dislike?: Cruelty.
What historical figures do you most despise?: A certain German dictator, Stalin, Pol Pot, Rasputin
What event in military history do you most admire?: WW II - Normandy
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm.
How would you like to die?: Quickly and before I grow feeble and senile.
What is your present state of mind?: Exhaustion.
What is your motto?: I have none.

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