Your favorite virtue? Pride
Your favorite qualities in men?
Will
Your favorite qualities in
women?
Charm
Your favorite occupation? Reading
while smoking rare tobacco mixtures
Your chief characteristic? My
hair
Your idea of happiness? To
love
Your idea of misery? To
be too hot
Your favorite color? Violet
If not yourself, who would you
be? A sailor
Where would you like to live?
Anywhere
outside the world
Your favorite prose authors?
Flaubert and Edgard-Poe
Your favorite poets? Baudelaire
Your favorite painters and
composers?
Botticelli,
Gustave Moreau, Palestrina, Bach, Wagner
Your favorite hero in real
life?
Skobeleff
You favorite heroine in real
life? Mme de Beaumont
You favorite heroes in fiction?
Hamlet
Your favorite heroines in
fiction?
Rosalind
You favorite food and drink?
Russian food, coffee
Your favorite names? That
depends on the people
Your pet aversion?
Dilettantes, women who are too pretty
What character in history do
you most dislike? Herod
What is your present state of
mind? Sad, a seeker, but not on 15 Feb '89
For what fault have you the
most
toleration? Errors in harmony
Your favorite motto? Always
upward [Toujours plus haut]