The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
JIM MORRISONDrugs are a bet with your mind.
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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
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They grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are.
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Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason
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Each day is a drive through history.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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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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Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you?
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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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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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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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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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You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
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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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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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