In Beno\u00eet Peeters’ biography of Jacques Derrida, there is an intriguing interview with Derrida that was never published. Peeters writes:<\/p>\n
In 1992, Jacques Derrida gave Osvaldo Mun\u0303oz an interview which concluded with a traditional \u2018Proust questionnaire\u2019. If this text, meant for the daily El Pai\u0301s, was in the end not published, this is perhaps because Derrida deemed it a bit too revealing:<\/p>\n
What are the depths of misery for you?<\/em>: To lose my memory.<\/p>\n
Where would you like to live?<\/em>: In a place to which I can always return, in other words from which I can leave.<\/p>\n
For what fault do you have the most indulgence?<\/em>: Keeping a secret which one should not keep.<\/p>\n
Favourite hero in a novel<\/em>: Bartleby.<\/p>\n
Your favourite heroines in real life?<\/em>: I\u2019m keeping that a secret.<\/p>\n
Your favourite quality in a man?<\/em>: To be able to confess that he is afraid.<\/p>\n
Your favourite quality in a woman?<\/em>: Thought.<\/p>\n
Your favourite virtue?<\/em>: Faithfulness.<\/p>\n
Your favourite occupation<\/em>: Listening.<\/p>\n
Who would you like to have been?<\/em>: Another who would remember me a bit.<\/p>\n
My main character trait?<\/em>: A certain lack of seriousness.<\/p>\n
My dream of happiness?<\/em>: To continue dreaming.<\/p>\n
What would be my greatest misfortune?<\/em>: Dying after the people I love.<\/p>\n
What I would like to be<\/em>: A poet.<\/p>\n
What I hate more than anything?<\/em>: Complacency and vulgarity.<\/p>\n
The reform I most admire<\/em>: Everything to do with the difference between the sexes.<\/p>\n