"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."
-Jim Morrison
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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.“
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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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"Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
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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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"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
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"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."
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