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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains bu

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. – Jean Paul

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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. – Jean Paul

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