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
JIM MORRISONJust anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel.
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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.
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You live you die and death not ends it.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.
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Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it’s a lie – people claim they want to be free
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I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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