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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.

Jim Morrison

Inspirational, Positive, Freedom

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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

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Life, Media, Uprising

"Readers recommend: songs about control" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.

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

Jim Morrison

Best Friend, Friendship, Being Yourself

"Indulge In Your Friendships — The Best Reinvention Of Them All" by Kathi Sharpe-Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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The 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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Giving Up, Freedom, Hippie

"Take Off The Mask" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2016.

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Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

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Baby, Lying, Hippie

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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? 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. It's all in how you carry it.

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Pain, Love Is, Reality

"Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

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Knowledge, Doors, Perception

Tagline to "The Doors" Documentary, 1991.

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That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....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 - they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it - they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.

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Love, Self Esteem, Hate

"Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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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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Stars, Looks, Gone

"Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip" by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams, (p. 152), 2003.

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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

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Normal, Ifs

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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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Time, Ends, Uncertain

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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

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Pieces, May, Best Of Me

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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

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Death, Hurt, Pain

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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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Important, Levels, Firsts

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

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People, Serious

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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

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Love You, Self Worth, People

"Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

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Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

"Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.

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Drunk, Drink, Disguise

Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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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 - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

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Lying, Fighting, Men

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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Jim Morrison

Dream, Song, Inspirational Love

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People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

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Fighting, People, Trying

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

Jim Morrison

People, Way, Achieve

Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

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Flames, Want, Kicks

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Music is your only friend until the end...

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Ends, Music Is

"Song: When the Music's Over (Strange Days)". September 25, 1967.

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Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. 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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Letting Go, Giving Up, People

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Born: December 8, 1943
Died: July 3, 1971
Occupation: Singer
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