Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
JIM MORRISONWe’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us
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Each day is a drive through history.
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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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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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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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People are strange when you’re a stranger.
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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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Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.
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The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.
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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 grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
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My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.
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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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I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
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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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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 think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between.
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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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We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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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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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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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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