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“It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.”

Thinking Men Has Beens Ends Men And Women Great Men Symptoms Vans Splendid Virginia Grim Bipolar Woolf Plath Schumann

Author:Stephen Fry

“The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.”

Men Has Beens Done Beautiful Fall Process Natural Color Summer Fruit Finished Surrender Offering Decay Splendid Frost Service To God

Author:Tryon Edwards

“In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had crowned with glory some of the preceding years it has only been from the banishment of all external force against which the struggle had been maintained. The shout of victory has been superseded by the expulsion of the enemy over whom it could have been achieved.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Force Causes Enemy Struggle Victory Glory Independence Triumph Could Have Been Splendid Hemisphere Expulsion Banishment External Forces

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.”

Source: Bolshevism: practice and theory

“You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.”

People Has Beens Moments Seems Eye Given Taken Our Lives Player Events Drama Remarkable Over You Splendid Fever Immediacy New Eyes Improbability

Author:Doris Lessing