This quote was on our dressing table mirror for 10 years, until we renovated our house. I always read it as “Character is what, you are in the dark” . Which I understood as, if you do not know what character is, then you are in the dark.
For some reason, I thought of that quote again today. And typed it in google to see who the author was. While typing it, I read it as “Character is, what you are in the dark”. Which I understand it as, what you do when no one is watching you or when you are in difficult times, is what character is all about.
I guess one has to extract their own meaning from this wise saying. But to me, understanding it in a different way after so many years, is a bit amusing. Funny how time can make you see/think/read things differently.
