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Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel est une écrivaine et journaliste américaine, connue pour avoir publié ses mémoires Prozac Nation à l'âge de 27 ans.

Elle est détentrice d'un BA en littérature comparée du Harvard College et d'un Juris doctor de l'école de droit de Yale. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. juillet 1967 – 7. janvier 2020
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Elizabeth Wurtzel: Citations en anglais

“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 livre Prozac Nation

Source: 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 livre Prozac Nation

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“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 livre Prozac Nation

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

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Elizabeth Wurtzel livre Prozac Nation

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“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 livre Prozac Nation

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

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Elizabeth Wurtzel livre Prozac Nation

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“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 livre Prozac Nation

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“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 livre Prozac Nation

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

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Elizabeth Wurtzel livre Prozac Nation

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

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Elizabeth Wurtzel livre Prozac Nation

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

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Elizabeth Wurtzel livre Prozac Nation

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“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 livre Prozac Nation

Source: 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 livre Prozac Nation

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“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 livre Prozac Nation

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“… 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 livre Prozac Nation

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“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 livre Prozac Nation

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

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Elizabeth Wurtzel livre Prozac Nation

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

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Elizabeth Wurtzel livre Prozac Nation

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“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 livre Prozac Nation

Source: 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 livre Prozac Nation

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

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Source: 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 livre Prozac Nation

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“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 livre Prozac Nation

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