"A boundary is not that at which something stops but as the Greeks recognized the boundary is that..."

“A boundary is not that at which something stops but, as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which something begins its presencing.”

- Martin Heidegger, from “Building, Dwelling, Thinking,” Poetry, Language, Thought, transl. Albert Hofstadter (Harper Colophon Books, 1971) 
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