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I was thinking about this and thought this would be a useful thing to post.
Here is a list of people who have had depression and/or bipolar disorder, those big failures:
Marlon Brando
Winston Churchill
Kurt Cobain
Harrison Ford
Judy Garland
Ernest Hemingway
John Lennon
Claude Monet
Jackson Pollock
Mark Rothko
Toulouse Lautrec
Alexander The Great
Hans Christian Andersen
Samuel Barber
Samuel Becket
Beethoven
Irving Berlin
William Blake
Napoleon Bonaparte
Albert Camus
Frederic Chopin
Eric Clapton
Leonard Cohen
Natalie Cole
Francis Ford Coppola
Noel Coward
Charles Darwin
Emily Dickinson
Dostoevski
Richard Dreyfuss
Thomas Edison
T.S. Eliot
William Faulkner
Michel Foucault
Sigmund Freud
Paul Gauguin
Johann Goethe
Arshile Gorky
Francisco de Goya
Handel
Stephen Hawking
Audrey Hepburn
Herman Hesse
Victor Hugo
Howard Hughes
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Edward Hopper
Henrich Ibsen
Billy Joel
Elton John
Franz Kafka
John Keats
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Vivian Leigh
Abraham Licoln
Greg Louganis
Martin Luther King
Gustav Mahler
Michelangelo
Sir Isaac Newton
Florence Nightingale
Nijinsky
Georgia O'Keefe
Laurence Olivier
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allen Poe
Cole Porter
Lou Reed
Rilke
John Ruskin
Charles Schulz
Shostakovich
Sting
James Taylor
Dylan Thomas
Mark Twain
Vincent Van Gogh
Walt Whitman
I only hope to be as big a failure during my life as them. Especially some of the artists. And if you don't know all the people on this list Jinn, I suggest you go educate yourself first before you self-appoint yourself a teacher.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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