10 talented madmen, who gave the world the great ideas

The life of a gifted writer is associated with a greater risk for the most vulnerable in man - his consciousness. A rise to fame, no matter how smooth it seems, almost always accompanied by a dangerous flirtation with an unknown, forbidden or insane.

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Edgar Allan PoAmerikansky writer, poet (1809-1849)

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The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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Ernest HemingueyAmerikansky writer (1899-1961)

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Franz KafkaCheshsky writer (1883 - 1924)

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"For me this is a terrible double life - he wrote in his diary - from which, perhaps, there is only one way out - the madness».

When his father insisted that after serving the son was still working in his shop, but not engaged in nonsense, Franz decided to commit suicide and wrote a farewell letter to his friend Max Brod "At the last moment I managed intervening quite unceremoniously, to protect him from" loving parents "- Max Brod wrote in his book about Kafka. His mental condition marked periods of deep calm and smooth, are replaced by the same long periods of the disease state.

Here are lines from his "Diaries" clearly reflect this inner struggle: "I can not sleep. Only the vision of no sleep. Strange instability of all my inner being. The monstrous world that I carry in my head. How do I get rid of him and to release him without destroying? ».

Writer died at age 41 of tuberculosis. Three months later, he was in agony: destroy not only the body but also the mind.

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Patient 5:
Jonathan SviftIrlandsky writer (1667-1745)

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Patient 6:
Jean-Jacques RussoFrantsuzsky writer and philosopher (1712-1778)

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Rousseau imagined conspiracies everywhere, he led the life of a wanderer and never stay long in the belief that all his friends and acquaintances in wait against him or something he is suspected.

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Nikolai GogolRussky writer (1809-1852)

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Guy de MopassanFrantsuzsky writer (1850-1893)

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Virginia VulfAngliyskaya writer (1882-1941)

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Nervous, impressionable girl in despair tried to commit suicide. She rescued, but the deep, protracted depression have since become part of her life. A strong attack of mental disorder overtook the young Virginia and after his father's death in 1904.

Emotional and frank letters and works of Virginia Woolf give grounds for concluding that gay writer. However, this is not true. Due to the experienced childhood tragedy, the fear that she had over men and society, she fell in love with women - but abhor all forms of intimacy, including them, could not bear hugs, does not allow even a handshake. Being 29 years old is married to Leonard Woolf (and the marriage is considered to be exemplary in terms of loyalty and emotional support to spouses of each other), author, by some accounts, has not been able to enter into marital relations with her husband.














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