Proust Questionnaire: Valeria Ryrak's answers

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On Thu, 25 Aug 11 15:46:55 UTC Valeria Ryrak (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: personal failure when I should have known better
Where would you like to live?: in my imagination
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to be in the constant midst of love and inspiration
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Epicureanism and the worship of the beautiful
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I prefer to worship the authors/poets instead.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Jesus Christ, Siddhartha Guatama, the Classical philosophers, Shakespeare, William Wilberforce, Martin Luther King, Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Lady Gaga, Rachel Corrie, Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman,
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Pippi Longstocking, Anne of Green Gables, Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Eyre, Briony Tallis
Your favorite painter?: Duffy Sheridan
Your favorite musician?: I've got many
The quality you most admire in a man?: empathy, intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence, grace
Your favorite virtue?: Humility
Your favorite occupation?: reading and writing, dreaming, travelling
Who would you have liked to be?: no one other than myself
Your most marked characteristic?: self-assurance
What do you most value in your friends?: loyalty and intelligence
What is your principle defect?: love of comfort and intellectual stimulation
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: never to have been born
What would you like to be?: my best self
What is your favorite color?: dreamy blue - aquamarine; lavender, light pink
What is your favorite flower?: rose, lavender
What is your favorite bird?: hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Ian McEwan, Virginia Woolf, J. D. Salinger
Who are your favorite poets?: Keats, Plath, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Seamus Heaney, Yeats, Mary Oliver, Mary Karr, Coleridge, Donne
Who are your heroes in real life?: Brandon Teena, my father, Mr. Don Walker (teacher)
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I
What are your favorite names?: Briony, Ebony, Noah, Turlington, Finnegan
What is it you most dislike?: the qualities that I can't get rid of
What historical figures do you most despise?: I prefer not to "despise"
What event in military history do you most admire?: none
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: the ability to fly or to become invisible at will
How would you like to die?: at peace with the life I lived, with my own shortcomings, on a sunny day, at home, with those I love most, and while feeling happy
What is your present state of mind?: pensive
What is your motto?: I find mottos cliche

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