"Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives."
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"Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny."
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"I have but one life to give to adventure."
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
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"I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments."
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"Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible."
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"I never saw a discontented tree."
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"Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures."
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"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone."
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"Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave."
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"The journey itself is my home."
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"Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have."
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"One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure."
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"Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story."
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"We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground."
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"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive."
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"The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others."
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"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."
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"I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure"
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"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
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