“There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.”
“Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.”
“Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.”
“I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned.”
“At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.”
“The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its death.”