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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in ...

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I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting expe...

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Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program -...

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As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar cre...

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One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are oft...

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One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are oft...

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C. S. LewisThe Horse and His Boy

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

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Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tal...

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I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys...

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Magnus threw the monkey a fig. The monkey took the fig."There," said Magnus. "Let us consider the ma...

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Magnus's ship would sail that night...His interest in the ship and his thoughts of an adventure to c...

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He lifted a glass. Ragnor and Catarina did not join him, but Magnus was happy to make the toast on h...

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Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure i...

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Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and de...

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation ...

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It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrif...

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I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies...

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The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes fro...

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Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it...

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When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because...

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I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman tha...

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I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wa...

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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w...

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I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw i...

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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The t...

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Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more secu...

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Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes ...

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Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;If we perish in the seeking, why, how smal...

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Dorothy L. SayersCatholic Tales and Christian Songs

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man ...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Ro...

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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hour...

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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

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E. M. ForsterA Passage to India

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes d...

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He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built hous...

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I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...

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Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true worl...

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To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all ...

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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...

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He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man ne...

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on ...

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on t...

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Gabriel García MárquezThe General in His Labyrinth

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give...

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Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playi...

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Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

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Guy DebordThe Society of the Spectacle

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and mo...

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It was in a swampy village on the lagoon river behind the Turner Peninsula that Pollock's first enco...

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H. G. WellsGreat Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to...

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H. G. WellsThe First Men in the Moon

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole...

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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night fr...

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We are but faint-hearted crusaders...our expeditions are but tours...half the walk is but retracing ...

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What he'd find there, of course, was up to Pete. But he was sure there were magicians in Tampico and...

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With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,We sailed for the Hesperides,The land where golden apples grow...

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Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed an...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing...

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I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, al...

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I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure w...

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But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own countr...

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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure…For already have I s...

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well...

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Hunter S. ThompsonThe Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a ...

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Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seei...

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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am gla...

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Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frighte...

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Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the fryin...

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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to fi...

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I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples ...

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Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b...

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You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were ...

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The stars are far brighterThan gems without measure,The moon is far whiterThan silver in treasure;Th...

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But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.''There i...

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I'm going on an adventure