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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

D. H. Lawrence
Children, Freedom, Fighting
D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

D. H. Lawrence
Stupid, Moving, Mountain
D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

The great home of the soul is the open road.

D. H. Lawrence
Courage, Home, Soul
D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

D. H. Lawrence
Inspirational, Unseen, Consciousness

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

D. H. Lawrence
Love, Inspirational, Sky
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3688, Delphi Classics

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

D. H. Lawrence
Life, Positive, Literature

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

D. H. Lawrence
Sorry, Saws, Self Pity
Pansies (1929) "Self-Pity"

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

D. H. Lawrence
Poison, Havens
D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.300, Cambridge University Press

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

D. H. Lawrence
Inspirational, Life, Dream
D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.359, Cambridge University Press

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

D. H. Lawrence
Love, Life, Breakup
D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

D. H. Lawrence
World, Fit, Chopping
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1494, Delphi Classics

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence
Love, Life, Best Friend

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

D. H. Lawrence
Race, Air, Roots
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8458, Delphi Classics

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D. H. Lawrence
Nature, Flower, Roots
D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

D. H. Lawrence
Freedom, Lying, Mean
D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

D. H. Lawrence
Water, Mind, Glitter
D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

D. H. Lawrence
Beauty, Patterns, Beautiful Soul
D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

D. H. Lawrence
Touched, Known
D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

D. H. Lawrence
Literature, Consciousness, Ends
D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

D. H. Lawrence
Men, Perfection, Can Do

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

D. H. Lawrence
Life, Real, Men
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10167, Delphi Classics

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

D. H. Lawrence
Hard Work, Sky, Age
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3688, Delphi Classics

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence
Inspirational, Motivation, Regret

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

D. H. Lawrence
Being Yourself, Discovery, Finding Yourself
D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconcious: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

D. H. Lawrence
Life, Wisdom, Taken
D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.262, Cambridge University Press

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