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Jean Paul on Sadness

1763–1825 Germany

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

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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