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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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
And I want out of this life on drugs.
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Drug Happen Life Out
My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
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Actually Dull Glamorous Life
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
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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Hand Someone Suicidal Suicide
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!
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Children Energy Job
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.
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Beyong Idea Salt Try
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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Depression Literature Way
Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Forest Look Tree
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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Alloe Instinct Side Try
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.
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Always Long Missing Someone Trying
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.
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Job Responsibility Simple
…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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Everything Feels Nothing Ultimately
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
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Fall Little Rain Sunny
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.
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Depression Pain Purposeful Sad

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

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