"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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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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