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
JIM MORRISONPeople are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security..
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.
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A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he’s been taught—all society’s brainwashing.
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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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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
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The time to hesitate is through.
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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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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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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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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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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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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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All our songs are about love, travel and death.
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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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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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Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with.
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I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
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Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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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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People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead.
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The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side…
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There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
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The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
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We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
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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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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is..
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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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