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On Mon, 06 Sep 10 21:44:06 UTC michou (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To feel that you have nothing to hold onto as the world changes around you.
Where would you like to live?: In a safe place with many windows that reflects the people I love living within.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To know art, goodness, belief, being human and also what it's like to transcending being human, to know respect, logic, empathy, and most importantly, love.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To children reciting the flaws of their parents.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird), Aragorn (Lord of the Rings), those who remain sensible despite all else and the INFP children of imagination I can relate to.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: The individuals who challenged humankind to become more than it was.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The women not letting their sex define them.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are more than their gender- who defy our overly engendered society.
Your favorite painter?: Joan Miro.
Your favorite musician?: Anyone who believes in what they're doing.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Accountability, the ability to reason, the ability to encourage and reflect upon critique from himself and others, empathy, respect, showing that he has thought hard about what he believes and can articulate it well.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: The same qualities I admire in men.
Your favorite virtue?: Respect and honesty.
Your favorite occupation?: Art.
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone who tried harder.
Your most marked characteristic?: Awkwardness in dealing with others, but a great trueness to myself.
What do you most value in your friends?: Complete honesty with themselves and with others. If they are not honest with themselves, they are hard to be around, and if they are not honest with me, someone ends up with unrealistic expectations.
What is your principle defect?: A lack of discipline.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have no-one that supports you or loves you for who you are.
What would you like to be?: Even better.
What is your favorite color?: All sorts, as long as they reflect one's intention.
What is your favorite flower?: Morning glories, even though they only bloom for a little while.
What is your favorite bird?: Probably the fairy penguin.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Peter Schaffer, Arthur Miller, Annie Dillard, David Wallace Foster, Edgar Allen Poe,
Who are your favorite poets?: ee cummings and Pablo Neruda.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father, for one, but there are also many who have done their best in their respective fields, and I respect that as well.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie Curie, and other scientist women, because history is so twisted by this point that I can't really say if I'd support anyone political or not.
What are your favorite names?: Those that belong to good people.
What is it you most dislike?: Not considering things fully, something I, too, have problems with.
What historical figures do you most despise?: This seems way too judgemental a question. It's easy to despise those when you have hindsight to educate you.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The work of medical services :)
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Discipline, and perhaps after that, a better mind for formulating arguments- not for the purpose of arguing, but for the purpose of really coming to a conclusion.
How would you like to die?: Without pain, and as someone I am proud to be.
What is your present state of mind?: Looking ahead.
What is your motto?: If we are to stick to personal mottos, then, to quote Lao Tzu: "At the center of your being you have the answer- you know who you are and what you want."

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