People, " Geralt turned his head, "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
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I cannot imagine what it is like to be a soldier. I mean, I know what it is like to be a soldier; I’ve been one, and that’s how I became a Witcher. But I only saw the things soldiers do: kill people and get killed in return. It was so easy.

I didn’t see how it started, or why we did it, or how we kept on doing it when we knew so little about what we were doing and had no idea of what we would get in return for our efforts. It was just them and me, and the more they hurt me, the better I felt about myself. But you know what? These soldiers… they were just people, just like me. They were all just people who thought they were better than others because they were men and women of war.

And then they got themselves into terrible situations that they couldn’t get out of, because there are no happy endings to real wars… The world is full of monsters. And every monster is only a man with a mask on his face who thinks he knows more than you do. Because he knows he has the power to kill you if he wants to, but you have none to take his life away from him.

Source: The Last Wish

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