We cripple ourselves with lies.
JIM MORRISONHow can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
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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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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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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces.
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Where’s your will to be weird?
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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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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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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I wonder why people like to believe I’m high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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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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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
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Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.
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