“Where does destiny end and choice begin?”
“Where does contagion end and art begin?”
“And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end.”
“There are places that we are welcomed," said Triolet, "and places where we are regarded as a noxious weed, or as a disease, something immediately to be quarantined and eliminated. But where does contagion end and art begin?”
“As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”