Proust Questionnaire

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I got this variation of the famous Proust questionnaire in email. If anyone feels like five minutes worth of self-analysis, knock yourself out.


The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one's personality, first popularized by the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust.

Your favorite virtue: Charity

Your favorite quality in a man: Empathy.

Your favorite quality in a woman: Kindness.

Your chief characteristic: I’m told I am peculiarly chameleonic.

What you appreciate the most in your friends: Loyalty

Your main fault: Self-doubt.

Your favourite occupation: Reading and writing.

Your idea of happiness: Joy in self-achievement.

Your idea of misery: Being wrongly viewed as responsible for some great misdeed.

If not yourself, who would you be? Hopefully someone happy in the ordinary aspects of her life.

Where would you like to live? I love where I live now.

Your favourite colour? Yellow.

Your favorite flower? Dandelions.

Your favorite prose authors: Auchincloss, Poe, Oates, O’Connor, King, Mcinerney, Sterling, Twain, Tolstoy, Follett, Updike.

Your favorite poets: Byron, St. Vincent Millay, Dickinson, Poe, Ecclesiastes, Basho, Edgar Lee Masters.

Your favorite hero in fiction: Saint Leibowitz

Your favorite heroine in fiction: Coraline Jones.

Your favorite composers: Beethoven, Stravinsky, Lennon, Gershwin, Pope St. Gregory the Great, Scott Joplin, Danny Elfman.

Your hero in real life: My father, for all he did for me in my life above and beyond the call of duty.

Your favorite heroine in real life: My mother, for all she did for me in my life, above and beyond the call of duty.

What characters in history do you most admire? Ibn Batuta, Walt Disney, Tecumseh, Ben Franklin, George Washington, Johannes Gutenberg, Abigail Adams, Walt Whitman.

What characters in history do you most dislike: Servilia Caepionis, Hernando Cortez,
Girolamo Savonarola, Pope Paul IV.

Your heroines in World history: Queen Maeve, after whom I am partly named, Mary Shelley, Lady Caroline Lamb.

My favorite painters: Mary Cassatt, Vincent Van Gogh, Norman Rockwell, much of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Your favorite food and drink:  Sushi, salads, nachos, but above all dairy foods are my weakness! Honestly, I mostly drink water but chocolate milk is an occasional guilty pleasure.

Your favorite names: Julian, Emma, simple names.

What I hate the most: Willful and injurious ignorance.

World history characters I hate the most: Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, Oliver Cromwell, Tomás de Torquemada .

The military event I admire the most: The Allied victory in the Second World War.

The reform I admire the most: Free speech.

The natural talent I'd like to be gifted with: If not flight or invisibility on demand, then being a morning person.

How I wish to die: Fulfilled, painlessly, willingly.

What is your present state of mind: Kinetic.

For what fault have you most toleration? Excessive lust.

Your favorite motto: “When the sea is calm, all ships alike show mastery in sailing.”

My favorite bird: Ravens.

What would be my greatest misfortune? To have my loved-ones die.

My dream of happiness: The human race living up to its fullest intellectual, moral, physical potential, and thereafter dwelling in peace, plenty, and universal goodwill. (Boring but, shrug.)