We’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us
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.
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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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Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth.
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There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
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Getting drunk . . . you’re in complete control up to a point. It’s your choice, every time you take a sip.
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A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he’s been taught—all society’s brainwashing.
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom…
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The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.
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I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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There’s the know. And there’s the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that’s what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th’ dooooooooorrr…
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You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren’t willing to do that.
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then.
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