Death Makes Angels of us all.
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.
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Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth.
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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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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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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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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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Music inflames temperament.
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How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it’s a lie – people claim they want to be free
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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move.
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People are strange when you’re a stranger.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality…
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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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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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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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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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What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?
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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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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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We don’t plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we’ll play.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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We cripple ourselves with lies.
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We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
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