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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

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Jean Paul
Age: 62 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 21
Died: 1825
Died: November 14
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul Richter
Zhen Polʹ Friderik Rikhter
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Richter
Sorrow
Black
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Scarcely
Looks
Sorrows
Like
Gray
Heads
Distance

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