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> [Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-serres/voyaging-begins-when-one-burns-one-s-boats-adventures-begin-with-a/)

[Michel Serres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-serres/)

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## More by Michel Serres

> [The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-serres/the-skin-is-a-variety-of-contingency-in-it-through-it-with-it-the/)

[Michel Serres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-serres/)

> [Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-serres/voyaging-begins-when-one-burns-one-s-boats-adventures-begin-with-a/)

[Michel Serres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-serres/)

> [The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-serres/the-only-philosophy-is-that-of-language-the-only-religion-is-that-of/)

[Michel Serres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-serres/)

> [“only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-serres/only-philosophy-can-go-deep-enough-to-show-that-literature-goes-still/)

[Michel Serres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-serres/)

> [What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-serres/what-philosophy-worthy-of-the-name-has-truly-been-able-to-avoid-the/)

[Michel Serres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-serres/)

> [Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-serres/smell-and-taste-differentiate-whereas-language-like-sight-and-hearing/)

[Michel Serres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-serres/)

> [You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-serres/you-who-look-at-everything-through-your-perpetually-open-eyes-is-your/)

[Michel Serres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-serres/)

> [“On peut presque tout faire sans lumière sauf écrire. Ecrire demande des lueurs. Vivre se suffit d’ombre, lire exige la clarté. Fast alles kann…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-serres/on-peut-presque-tout-faire-sans-lumi-re-sauf-crire-ecrire-demande-des/)

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