I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
D. H. LawrencePsychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D. H. LawrenceI believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
D. H. LawrenceThe real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.
D. H. Lawrence