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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 Morrison

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
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
Music inflames temperament.
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Feel Feeling Inflame Music Temperament
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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Calm Hitchinker Levelled Out Road Season Stood Thumb Time
Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
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Always Evil Infatuation Violence
We’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us
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Cancel Death End Found Reaching Song Trying
Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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Deepest Expose Fear Freedom Power Vanish
I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
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Anything Door King Lizard
Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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Drama Freeway Giving Passing Travel
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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Exist Forgotten Key Process Progress Star Warm
Most people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.
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Keep Love People Performing Pretend
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
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
That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is..
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Amount Letting Love People Person Pretend Real Self Worth You
I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
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Always Comparision Cutting Thinking Ugly Useless
Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.
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Country Good Sometimes Surf Time Together Work
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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Divorce Generation Glowing Name People Symbol
We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
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Hide Music Our Ourselves Reveal
There’s the know. And there’s the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that’s what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th’ dooooooooorrr…
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Allow Desire Door Hope Know Separate Two
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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Especially Freedom Friendship Life Love Someone
How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.
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Afraid Deal Feel Pain People Wake
What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?
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Dawn Done Earth Fair Knives Plundered Ravaged Ripped Sister
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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Cluster Emotion Idol People Pop Soap Symbol Theatre TV
Music is your only friend until the end…
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End Ends Friend Music Until Your
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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Achieve Deliver Feel Limited People Poetry Time Way
You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren’t willing to do that.
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Do Freedom Go Let Most Other People Side Willing
Take it easy baby, take it as it comes – specialize in having fun!
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Baby Come Easy Fun Having Specialize

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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