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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.

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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
Literature
Beneath
Nature
Mountains
Around
Storm
Soul
Souls
Purify
Great
Mountain
Storms
Like
Sorrow
Sorrows
Air
Gather
Break
Plain

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