The only sin is the sin of being born.

 

The only sin is the sin of being born.
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As quoted in "Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett" by John Gruen, in Vogue, (December 1969), p. 210
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Comparable to "The tragic figure represents the expiation of original sin, of the original and eternal sin of him and all his 'soci malorum,' the sin of having been born. 'Pues el delito mayor / Del hombre es haber nacido.'" from his essay Proust, quoting Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sue?o (Life is a Dream).

 

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Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
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Born.
So he was born, too.
Born like everyone else.
Like me, who will die.
The son of an actual woman.
A new arrival from the body's depths.
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O woman, born first to believe us;
Yea, also born first to forget;
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