All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
JIM MORRISONTo keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then – whoosh, and I’m gone… and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me – ever.
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
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How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?
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Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous
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Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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You have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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