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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

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
Am I worried people will say I’m repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Eventually Literature People Worry
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Depression Pain Purposeful Sad
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 God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Children Energy Job
…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Everything Feels Nothing Ultimately
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
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
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Meantime Room Rooms Sleep
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Alloe Instinct Side Try
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

Fall Little Rain Sunny
I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Beyong Idea Salt Try

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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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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