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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.

Jim Morrison

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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Freedom Giving Hippie Important Kind Really Role Trade
Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
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Eye Hand Keep Road Wheel
All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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Building Grave Live Shallow Sweat
We cripple ourselves with lies.
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Cripple Freedom Lie Ourselves
Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
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Lasting Moment Obviously Thing Work
Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then.
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Combination Envy Feeling Finite Guileless Image Love Ourselves Possible Premutation Vanity
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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Everything Person Society Taught Wealth Willing
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.
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Embracing English Horrible Language Phrases Thinking
I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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Flame Kick Shithouse Want Whole
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. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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Carry Hide Pain People Something Suffering Wake
Getting drunk . . . you’re in complete control up to a point. It’s your choice, every time you take a sip.
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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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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.
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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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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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That’s not saying that people shouldn’t keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence.
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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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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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