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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and ...

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She's young and the world's wide open.

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never...

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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adv...

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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

What sort of adventures?' I asked him, astonished. ‘All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train....

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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the me...

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatnessbegins with treachery,...

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One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments ...

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There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, bu...

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Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate a...

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When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of th...

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Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, ...

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John MuirThe Mountains of California

There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on th...

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Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together....

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The eight-man expedition was pinned down in a ferocious blizzard high on K2, waiting to make an assa...

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Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...

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I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...

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I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...

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It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to a...

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Because I was alone, however, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning. The ice looked colder an...

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Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears...

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Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone befo...

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the sa...

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its cou...

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Joseph CampbellThou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

If you want to know the age of the Earth—look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reve...

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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a cont...

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I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to rea...

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Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridic...

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If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong,For he never goes a-travelling but he takes...

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...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy...

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Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty Days

I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations ...

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Jules VerneJourney to the Center of the Earth

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled ...

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Jules VerneJourney to the Center of the Earth

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...

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It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where...

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you...

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Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a carto...

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Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simp...

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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In ...

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Lloyd AlexanderThe Illyrian Adventure

Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, ...

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The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before...

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I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just ...

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We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, mac...

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Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to G...

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Mark DriscollReal Marriage: The Truth About Sex

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of...

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Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savo...

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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

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Mercedes LackeySpirits White as Lightning

[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are ...

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Some people think 1963's a long time ago; when a dead American in the jungle was an event, a grim th...

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This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get ...

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Each book holds an experience and an adven

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide op...

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Leave no path untaken.

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of...

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Niall FergusonCivilization: The West and the Rest

We love because it's the only true adventure.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see,...

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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wh...

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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with yo...

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The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...

But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother,...

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We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!

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P. L. TraversMary Poppins Comes Back

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have s...

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The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I pray...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the inte...

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Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest gleamed like water, but when she stepp...

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Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings...

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Who knows what adventure we might find here?" Drizzt said excitedly. "Who knows what secrets might b...

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enoug...

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A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonRepresentative Men: Seven Lectures

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not...

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Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever capri...

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No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And whe...

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Richard HalliburtonRichard Halliburton: His Story of His Life's Adventure

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home...

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We may see a Creature with forty-nine headsWho lives in the desolate snow,And whenever he catches a ...

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Art is an adventure. When it ceases to be an adventure, it ceases to be art. Not all of us pursue th...

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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a sla...

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Robert E. HowardThe Complete Chronicles of Conan

Instructions For WayfarersThey will declare: Every journey has been taken.You shall respond: I have ...

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for ...

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The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger--the bl...

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Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles.""That comes--as you call it--of being arran...

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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trela...

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People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high countr...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values