““The beginning of the end, the beginning of the end,” muttered Lo Hawk. “We must preserve something.”
“The end of the beginning,” sighed La Dire. “Everything must change.””

— Samuel R. Delany , book The Einstein Intersection

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The Einstein Intersection (1967)

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American author, professor and literary critic 1942

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Everlasting

“where the world ends is where you must begin”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.”

Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990) Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author

Source: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942 : ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html)
Referring to the British victory over the German Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Variant: This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
Source: Their Finest Hour

“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.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“What we celebrate today is not a victory of party or of individuals. What we celebrate is a beginning as well as an end; a change as well as a restoration. A beginning to end poverty, and misery; a beginning to end ignorance and hopelessness; and a beginning to restore all that is good, beautiful and sublime in our lives as one people under God.”

Bukola Saraki (1962) Nigerian politician

Inaugural Address (2003)

“A wise man begins in the end, a fool ends in the beginning.”

Unknown author

“My end is my beginning, and my beginning my end.”

Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377) French poet and composer

Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin.
"Ma fin est mon commencement", line 1; translation from Donald N. Ferguson A History of Musical Thought (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1935] 1948) p. 94.