Original artwork, not a still
Waiting for Godot · 1952
We all are born mad. Some remain so.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker proposes that everyone begins life mad, then adds that some stay that way. The short second sentence supplies a dry sting, turning an apparently universal condition into a distinction among adults. Irrationality becomes a shared beginning that people supposedly leave behind to differing degrees.
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