And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
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More Jim Morrison Quotes
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People are strange when you’re a stranger.
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Everybody 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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To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image
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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is..
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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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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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Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth.
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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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 most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are…There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
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A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving
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Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I’ll give you love unfolding.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was curiosity.
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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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Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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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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We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
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We cripple ourselves with lies.
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Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you?
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