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People are strange when you're a stranger.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You ...

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Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night.

The Lords and the New Creatures

She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

Wilderness: The Lost Writings

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying tha...

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The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of th...

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I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, the...

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Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...

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I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about...

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Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You ...

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No one here gets out alive.

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no ...

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We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body d...

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The Lords and the New Creatures

In the holy solipsism of the youngNow I can't walk thru a citystreet w/out eying eachsingle pedestr...

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Wilderness: The Lost Writings

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us s...

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The Lords and the New Creatures

I am troubled, immeasurablyby your eyes. I am struck by the featherof your soft reply.The sound of g...

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Wilderness: The Lost Writings

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they se...

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Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against ou...

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I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always for...

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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol...

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I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have n...

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Music inflames temperament.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol...

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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

What have they done to the earth?What have they done to our fair sister?Ravaged and plundered and ri...

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That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for w...

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Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to des...

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Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment...

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Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObsc...

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I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots

There are things known and there are things unknownand in between are the doors.

Letters from Joe

Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.

The Lords and the New Creatures

Look where we worship.

The Lords and the New Creatures

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes...

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The Lords and the New Creatures

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than...

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I'm gonna love you Till the heavens Stop the rain.I'm gonna Love you Till the stars Fall from the sk...

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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself...

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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. ...

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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks...

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She dances in a ring of fire and throws of the challenge with a shrug.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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Jim Morrison

Singer

Born: 1943-12-08

Died: 1971-07-03

James Douglas Morrison (8 December 1943 – 3 July 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, poet and founding member of The Doors.More