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“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“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” - 1961

“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 1997

“But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“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” - 1865

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Three Musketeers” - 1844

“The adventures first . . . explanations take such a dreadful time.” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

“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” - 1954

“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” - 1880

“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” - 1883

“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” - 1964

“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“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” - 1944

“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” - 1949

“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

“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” - 1999

“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” - 1954

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“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” - 1938

“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“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” - 1865

“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” James Joyce, “Dubliners” - 1914

“the danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

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