Andrzej Sapkowski quotes

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live. (Andrzej Sapkowski)
To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.
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There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression.
Andrzej Sapkowski
I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different, I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.
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Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.
Andrzej Sapkowski
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.
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The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.
Andrzej Sapkowski
During his life, the witcher had met thieves who looked like town councillors, councillors who looked like beggars, harlots who looked like princesses, princesses who looked like calving cows, and kings who looked like thieves.
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They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.
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Mistakes,' he said with effort, ‘are also important to me. I don't cross them out of my life, or memory. And I never blame others for them.
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What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth? (Andrzej Sapkowski)
No. I've no time to waste. Winter's coming.
Andrzej Sapkowski
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.
Andrzej Sapkowski
Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands that you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.
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I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten.
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I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it.
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It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.
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Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.
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