When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISONThe 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.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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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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I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But it’s ironic.
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What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?
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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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The program for this evening is not new. You’ve seen this entertainment through and 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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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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I like to let each thing happen – direct it a little consciously, maybe – but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance.
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Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.
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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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Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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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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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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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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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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