“We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.”
Oscar Wilde book De Profundis
De Profundis (1897)
“He is killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet.”
— Idi Amin
Uganda. Amin:The Wild Man of Africa, March 07, 1977, Time magazine.
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