In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
ELIZABETH WURTZELMy imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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It’s being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It’s the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
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…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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And I want out of this life on drugs.
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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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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
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