Every Man has a rainy corner of his life out of which foul weather proceeds and follows after him.
 
[Jeder Mensch hat eine Regen-Ecke seines Lebens aus der ihm das schlimme Wetter nachzieht.]

Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German writer, art historian, philosopher, littérateur [Johann Paul Friedrich Richter; pseud. Jean Paul]
Titan, Jubilee 31, cycle 123 [Gaspard] (1803) [tr. Brooks (1863)]
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(Source (German)). Alternate translation:

Every man has a rainy corner in his life, from which bad weather besets him.
[E.g.]


 
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