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The Proust Questionnaire

{Affectionately nicked from Dilettantsia)

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Boarding a private plane.

What is your greatest fear?
Minor infections.

What historical figure do you most identify with?
Boudicca.

Which living person do you most admire?
You.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Empathy.

What is the trait you most despise in others?
Indifference.

What is your greatest extravagance?
Picking up the check.

On what occasion do you lie?
I don't.

What do you dislike most about your appearance?
What would be the point of that?

Which living person do you most despise?
Again...

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Brilliant.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I'd be a bit harder.

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
I have no desire to change other people.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Sleeping as late as I want.

If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
Dust.

Who are your favorite writers?
The ones who I work with.

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Sabine in A Spy in the House of Love.

What is your most treasured possession?
Louis Vuitton Speedy 30 in Black Epi Leather.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Envy.

Where would you like to live?
Where wouldn't I like to live?

What is your most marked characteristic?
A classical face.

What is the quality you most like in a man?
Consistency.

What is your greatest regret?
Any moment of hesitation.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Helping others.

If there is a Heaven what would you like to hear God say when you arrive?
Champagne?

Please leave your answers in the comments. I would love to read them!

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hurrah! i love the "champagne?"

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