They grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are.
JIM MORRISONYou feel your strength in the experience of pain.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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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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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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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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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
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Where’s your will to be weird?
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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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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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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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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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The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.
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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 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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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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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings.
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