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The speaker rejects the idea of regretting past actions, but says the deeper regret is simply being born. The second sentence adds a bleak, weary view of dying, describing it as drawn out and exhausting.
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Originally said in English.
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Books by Samuel Beckett
En attendant Godot
1952
Malone meurt
1978
Disjecta
1995
Happy days
1994
Mercier et Camier
1994