“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc
Love is one of the emotions like all the others–and so it is all right whilst you feel it. But I can’t see how it becomes an absolute. It is just part of human relationships, no more. And it is only part of any human relationship. And why one should be required always to feel it any more than one always feels sorrow or distant joy. I cannot conceive. Love isn’t a desideratum–it is an emotion you feel or don’t feel, according to circumstance.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
English author
Sons and Lovers (1913)