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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

Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactl...

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Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

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Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

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Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

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Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

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Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

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Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

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Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

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Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unl...

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A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it ...

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Saul BellowThe Adventures of Augie March

You're on your own little quest, an there's a bit of Frodo Baggins in you, and a bit of Verne's Paga...

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Trudging alone along that black road, sometimes in the teeth of wind and rain, and watching the whit...

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The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it ...

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It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that "way leads on to way";...

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I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...

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Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.The Gnawer...

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To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highes...

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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure it is an illustrate...

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I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, ...

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Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobb...

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He'd never asked for an exciting life. What he really liked, what he sought on every occasion, was b...

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Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of ba...

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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...

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What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What p...

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Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the s...

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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

Although she continued to knit, and sat upright, it was thus that she felt herself; and this self ha...

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Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, f...

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To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...

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When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of...

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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of ...

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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual a...

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Abraham Joshua HeschelGod in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number ...

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One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

... what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor...

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I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day...

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You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

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Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being incl...

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Alexandre DumasThe Vicomte de Bragelonne

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched o...

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Let's end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell ...

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a...

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As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not...

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Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

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Anne CarsonPlainwater: Essays and Poetry

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremos...

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For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin n...

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A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another y...

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Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.

He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If ...

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Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

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Bill BrysonNeither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests o...

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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