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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Autobiographer
Journalist
Lawyer
Writer
New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
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The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.
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...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus
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But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.
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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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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.
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Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.
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You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.
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