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“let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“the danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Two separate beings, placed in different situations, confronting each other in their freedom, and seeking the justification of existence through each other, will always live an adventure full of risks and promises.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“I go to the movies because — I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures.” Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“The adventures first . . . explanations take such a dreadful time.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“The Life Adventurous was so new a thing to him, and so thrilling; and this fresh aspect of it was so tempting” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“You know this fellow is many-sided, a tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“all it takes is a change of attitude: I'm not going to look for happiness anymore. From now on, I'm independent; I see life through my eyes and not through other people's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive. ” Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello
“at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning . . . but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door . . . You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.” John Muir, The Mountains of California
“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” John Green, Paper Towns
“Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Adventures are all very well in their place . . . but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.” Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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