The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
JIM MORRISONEverybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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That’s not saying that people shouldn’t keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence.
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We don’t plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we’ll play.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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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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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
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How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.
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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel.
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In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song.
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Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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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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