The limit of death…

represents the past in its real form; it is not the physical past whose existence is abolished, nor the epic past as it has become perfected in the work of memory, nor the historical past in which man finds the guarantor of his future, but rather the past which manifests itself in an inverted form of repetition.47 (262)

Footnote 47, (268): “(Added in 1966:) These four words [renversé dans la repetition] in which my latest formulation of repetition is found (1966), have been submitted for an improper recourse to the ‘eternal return’ [toujours present dans l’éternel retour], which was all that I could get across at that time.”

the gift of human language

death as a means can be recognized in every relation in which man is born into the life of history. This is the only life that endures and is true, since it is transmitted without being lost in a tradition passed on from subject to subject. It is impossible not to see how loftily this life transcends that inherited by the animal, in which the individual fades into the species, since no memorial distinguishes its ephemeral appearance from the appearance that reproduces it in the invariability of the type.  (263)

Death:

the state of free differences when they are no longer subject to the form imposed upon them by an I or an ego, when they assume a shape which excludes my own coherence no less than that of any identity whatsoever. There is always a ‘one dies’ more profound than ‘I die’, and it is not only the gods who die endlessly and in a variety of ways; as though there appeared worlds in which the individual was no longer imprisoned within the personal form of the I and the ego, nor the singular imprisoned within the limits of the individual—in short, the insubordinate multiple (103).