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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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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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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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Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

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Reality, Testing, Bounds

"Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

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Men, Other Worlds, Paradise

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I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

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Hilarious, Blow, Intelligent

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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

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Mistake, Hippie, Worst

"Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

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Freedom, Thinking, Greatest Fear

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Where's your will to be weird?

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Being Yourself, Being Weird, Weirdness

"Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. 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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Reality, Idols, People

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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. We cripple ourselves with lies.

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Sex, Truth, Honesty

"Into This House We're Born". Book by James Hunt, p. 262, July 1, 2006.

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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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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. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

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Love, Life, Friendship

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

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The time to hesitate is through.

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Music, Commitment

Song: Ligth My Fire!

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We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

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Children, Parenting, Progress

"College Students and Their Helicopter Parents: a Recipe for Stress" by Karl Gude, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

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Sweat, Building, Shallow

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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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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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Real, Doors, Suits You

Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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Take it easy baby, take it as it comes - specialize in having fun!

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Baby, Fun, Easy

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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

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Inspirational, Forgiving, Dawn

"Song: 'The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)'". 1971.

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That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

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Famous Love, Being Yourself, True Friend

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

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Do you know the warm progress under the stars?
Do you know we exist?
Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom?
Have you been born yet
& are you alive?

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Stars, Keys, Progress

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Love cannot save you from your own fate.

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Love, Pregnancy, Fate

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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.

Jim Morrison

Pain, Fear, Scary

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