Proust Questionnaire: holly's answers

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On Wed, 01 Jun 11 21:17:59 UTC holly (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be unloved and not to have lived.
Where would you like to live?: In my imagination come to life.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have loved, lived and laughed.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Worry and despair.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Women who triumph and endure hardship with ease and grace. Women who put men to shame.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Elizabeth I, Jane Austen, Catherine the Great, Cleopatra.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who have excelled and continued to be true to themselves. Women who are wise and experienced.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Eyre, Holly Golightly. Women who embody and express beauty in countless ways and who make absolutely no apology for who they are.
Your favorite painter?: Egon Schiele.
Your favorite musician?: Joni Mitchell.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, humour, kindness, honesty and curiosity.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Natural beauty, female pride, intelligence, kindness.
Your favorite virtue?: Intelligence, curiosity.
Your favorite occupation?: Dreaming, reading writing, watching.
Who would you have liked to be?: Joan of Arc
Your most marked characteristic?: A love of learning, my slightly enhanced stress levels, my inability to properly express myself in words or actions.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty and a lack of non conformity.
What is your principle defect?: Continually looking to the bad side of things, my lack of patience, my occasional unhappiness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never getting the courage to accept that learning is a beautiful things and wasting my talent.
What would you like to be?: The best Me I could possibly be.
What is your favorite color?: Navy blue- the colour of my childhood, the seas I so wish to travel and the occasional feelings that I have to overcome.
What is your favorite flower?: Orchids.
What is your favorite bird?: The dove.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Ian McEwan, Jane Austen, The Bronte's and Truman Capote.
Who are your favorite poets?: Sylvia Plath.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Mother Earth.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I.
What are your favorite names?: Daria and Violet.
What is it you most dislike?: Intentional idiocy, unkindness and conformity.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Mussolin, Franco, Stalin.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The end of the First World War.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Patience, the ability to draw, a sweet disposition.
How would you like to die?: Surrounded by loved ones and memories, Safe in the knowledge that I have seen and lived.
What is your present state of mind?: A cross between a comfort of analysing my fragmented mine and a wariness of it.
What is your motto?: Trust in yourself.

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