"I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we're both unhappy and we both suffer"
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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A Fool mocking Fools, a King turned Clown, chained to his own Demons, Performing endlessly in the Circus of Regret.
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