The adventurer does not propose to be; he deliberately makes himself a lack of being; he aims expressly at existence; though engaged in his undertaking, he is at the same time detached from the goal. Whether he succeeds or fails, he goes right ahead throwing himself into a new enterprise to which he will give himself with the same indifferent ardor. It is not from things that he expects the justification of his choices.
An adventurer is attached to his successes, to possession, and does not care about the fates and freedoms of other men, other than how they serve them. They are aware they are alive and will die, but are concerned about how they will be remembered.
