What is your most marked characteristic?
A craving to be loved, or, to be more precise, to be caressed and spoiled rather than to be admired.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Feminine charm.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
A man’s virtues, and frankness in friendship.
What do you most value in your friends?
Tenderness—provided they possess a physical charm, which makes their tenderness worth having.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Lack of understanding; weakness of will.
What is your favorite occupation?
Loving.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Not, I fear, a very elevated one. I really haven’t the courage to say what it is, and if I did I should probably destroy it by the mere fact of putting it into words.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Never to have known my mother or my grandmother.
In which country would you like to live?
One where certain things that I want would be realized—and where feelings of tenderness would always be reciprocated.
Who are your favorite writers?
At the moment, Anatole France and Pierre Loti.
Who are your favorite poets?
Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny.
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Hamlet.
Who is your favorite heroine of fiction?
Berenice.
Who are your favorite composers?
Beethoven, Wagner, Schumann.
Who are your favorite painters?
Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt.
What are your favorite names?
I only have one at a time.
What is it that you most dislike?
My own worst qualities.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Willpower and irresistible charm.
How would you like to die?
A better man than I am, and much beloved.
What is your current state of mind?
Annoyance at having to think about myself in order to answer these questions.
What is your motto?
I prefer not to say, for fear it might bring me bad luck.
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