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Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel è stata una scrittrice e giornalista statunitense.

✵ 31. Luglio 1967 – 7. Gennaio 2020
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Elizabeth Wurtzel: Frasi in inglese

“Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“One morning you wake up and are afraid you are going to live. In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

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

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“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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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“… occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.”

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“… if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can say is, "Gradually, then suddenly." That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Variante: There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.
Origine: Prozac Nation

“For all of my life I have needed more.”

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Origine: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

“One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

“I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.”

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Elizabeth Wurtzel libro Prozac Nation

Origine: Prozac Nation

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