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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

Jim Morrison

That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is….Most people love you for who you pretend to be…
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Amount Esteem Hate Love People Person Pretend Self
Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
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Actually Black Born Funny Happened Music Nightlife Out
I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD…
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Age Crash Mind Missing Old Plane Sleep Smell
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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Keep Locked Love Pretending Pretense True
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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Feel Going Happen Smell Taste Want
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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Fel Possession Precious Remind Them Trying
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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Daring Destroy Everyone Feel Feeling Nature Person Punish Subtle
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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Everyone Fiery Gone Huge Look Look Gasp Shooting Star Stop
The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre
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Become Funeral Hesitate Love Mire Our Time Trying
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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Allow Cannot Devotion Lord Petition Prayer
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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Desire Jealously Natural Somebody Strange Understood
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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Earth Fair Plundered Ravaged Ripped
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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Beginning Few Night Ocean Outline Song
People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
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Death Hurt Life More Pain People Point Strange
You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
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Act Getting Image Locked Love Pretense
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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Fear Pain Personal Private Scary Solitary Terrifying Violence

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