Proust Questionnaire: Laura's answers

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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:40:44 UTC Laura (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To feel nothing.
Where would you like to live?: A small city, or a pocket of a big city. New England, Pacific NW, or Tokyo.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To love with substance.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To be stagnant.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The unlikely.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Those who are held higher in history's estimation than they were in their own.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman who lives fearlessly.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The atypical.
Your favorite painter?: Matisse
Your favorite musician?: I have never been able to answer this question in a way that I think is accurate or satisfactory.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Optimism, genuineness, kindness, personal contentment
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Quriky, musical, kind, lives life on the perimeter
Your favorite virtue?: Simultaneously honest and good
Your favorite occupation?: Tangents, music, reading
Who would you have liked to be?: Stevie Nicks
Your most marked characteristic?: An awkwardness that keeps me on the outside of most things, but allows me to know when something is truly right.
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty, long-termedness, humor, intelligence
What is your principle defect?: Inaction
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never truly loved anyone
What would you like to be?: Rip van Winkle
What is your favorite color?: Red, maybe.
What is your favorite flower?: Tulips.
What is your favorite bird?: Pellican
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I can never name favorites.
Who are your favorite poets?: The same.
Who are your heroes in real life?: I don't think I have any.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Queen Elizabeth I
What are your favorite names?: Names that are also places
What is it you most dislike?: Experienced jealousy or regret
What historical figures do you most despise?: I don't despise anyone.
What event in military history do you most admire?: None.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To be better at observing others so as to gauge their opinions better.
How would you like to die?: When I have nothing left to live for.
What is your present state of mind?: Apathy
What is your motto?: Something terribly hokey, I'm sure.

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