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 MORRISONWe 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 get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
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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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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces.
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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? I think it’s a lie – people claim they want to be free
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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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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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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security..
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There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
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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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Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with.
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The only solution is to confront them – confront yourself – with the greatest fear imaginable.
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I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
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I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can’t drag people through.
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