E. M. Forster Quote

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.


Where Angels Fear to Tread (ed. Vintage, 1920)


For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.