They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
JIM MORRISONAnd if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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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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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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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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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings.
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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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Music inflames temperament.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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The time to hesitate is through.
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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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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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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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You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
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Man, I’m sick of doubt.
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Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
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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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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was curiosity.
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Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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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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Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
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I’m kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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No one here gets out alive.
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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
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