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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. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Jim Morrison

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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Everyone Fiery Gone Huge Look Look Gasp Shooting Star Stop
Everybody 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.
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Everybody Freedom Instant Man Most Possess Precious Sacred Thing
We’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us
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Cancel Death End Found Reaching Song Trying
Each day is a drive through history.
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Day Drive Each History Through
Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
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Interest Nobody Normal Stay
And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
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Fel Possession Precious Remind Them Trying
That unknown was once very well known. It’s where our souls belong….
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Belong Known Soul Unknown Very Well
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down
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Earth Fair Plundered Ravaged Ripped
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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Believe Hippie Long Music Obtain Prolonged Sense Unknown
Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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Alchemy Cinema Erotic Heir Last Science
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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Between Capitulation Choice Difference Guess Lot Small Suicide
Jealousy we understood and thought natural–a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
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Desire Jealously Natural Somebody Strange Understood
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!
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Choose Day Divinity First See Sign
I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD…
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Age Crash Mind Missing Old Plane Sleep Smell
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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Body Content Dancing Dark Eye Mad Metamorphosised Sensitive
You’ve seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?
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Entertainment Evening Program Seen Year

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. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

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