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But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Hand Someone Suicidal Suicide
I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Enjoy Feeling Look Wall White
My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Actually Dull Glamorous Life
And I want out of this life on drugs.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Drug Happen Life Out
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Imagination Passion People Surprise
Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Forest Look Tree
And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren’t we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Confusing Keep Mean Need
…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Everything Feels Nothing Ultimately
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Despair Long Predilection Sorrow
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Job Responsibility Simple
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Depression Pain Purposeful Sad
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i’m always missing someone or someplace or something, i’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Always Long Missing Someone Trying
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Feeling Nation Prozac Something Wrong
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Fall Little Rain Sunny
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Alloe Instinct Side Try
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Depression Literature Way

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

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