Most people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.
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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Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you?
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Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
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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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I wonder why people like to believe I’m high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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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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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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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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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
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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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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
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Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
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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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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom…
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