"Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck."

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Source : Michel Serres (2016). “The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies”, p.254, Bloomsbury Publishing

Michel Serres

#Adventure Quotes #Boat Quotes #Shipwreck Quotes

“I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever”
“A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.”
“Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.”
“A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.”
“Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.”
“Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.”
“I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.”
“The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.”

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