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destiny isn’t a scroll written on by a Great Demiurge, nor the will of heaven, nor the inevitable verdict of some providence or other, but the result of many apparently unconnected facts, events and occurrences.
“Because the people are ignorant, stupid and easily manipulated,” finished Skellen, blowing his nose. “It’s enough to shout ‘Hurrah!,’ make a speech from the steps of the senate, open the prisons and lower taxes.”
“I’m errant. But not asinine.”
If you swallowed a cockroach with your soup, dolt, you’d have more intelligence in your guts than in your head.
‘What’s a spear? It’s a nobleman’s weapon, a stick with a poor man on each end.’
always keep your trap shut. Mark my words, no dung fly ever flew into a trap that was shut.
But now I know what that smile meant. It was a smile of pity at the naivety of a child who thought that the slit throats of Vilgefortz and Bonhart meant the triumph of good over evil. I really must tell him I’ve grown wiser, that I’ve understood. I really must tell him.
Destiny isn’t the judgements of providence, isn’t scrolls written by the hand of a demiurge, isn’t fatalism. Destiny is hope. Being full of hope, believing that what is meant to happen will happen, I cast my vote. I vote for Ciri. The Child of Destiny. The Child of Hope.”
“There’s no turnover,” added Zoltan. “There’s no transport. Only usury and barter are functioning. Did you see the bazaar? Profiteers are making fortunes beside beggars selling and exchanging the remains of their possessions…”
“The evil I fought against,” repeated the Witcher, “was a sign of the activities of Chaos, activities calculated to disturb Order. Since wherever Evil is at large, Order may not reign, and everything Order builds collapses, cannot endure. The little light of wisdom and the flame of hope, the glow of warmth, instead of flaring up, go out. It’ll be dark. And in the darkness will be fangs, claws and blood.”
Today Evil acts according to rights—because it is entitled to. It acts according to peace treaties, because it was taken into consideration when the treaties were being written…”
