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 MORRISONNo one here gets out alive.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
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Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?
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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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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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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding.
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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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The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.
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The best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
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I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between.
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Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
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You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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I’ve noticed that when people are joking they’re usually dead serious, and when they’re serious, they’re usually pretty funny.
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Each day is a drive through history.
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Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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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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