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I don't have time for miracles. They make me puke.
— Berserk ‧ 1989
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Guts answers a believer's faith with a bitter joke: if this is what God's miracles look like, he wants no part of them. It sums up the series' view of the divine, a world where heaven's hand shows up as a nightmare that has to be fought with a sword. Fans quote it as the purest statement of Guts' defiance, and it works as a reply to any talk of fate or a plan.
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In context
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Berserk, Conviction arc: manga chapter 123, "Night of Miracles", adapted as episode 3 of the 2016 anime. Guts has taken Farnese, leader of the Holy Iron Chain Knights, hostage to escape her order. Spirits close in out of the dark and attack, and Guts cuts them down with the Dragonslayer while Farnese, who cannot see what he sees, panics. He tells her the spirits and darkness are what her God brings upon the world, and that these are the real miracles, and she should pray them away. A pack of possessed hounds is next.
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- Wikiquote, Berserk (anime)Quotes From Manga, section GutsReference checked
- Berserk Wiki, Episode 123 (Manga) "Night of Miracles"SummaryReference checked
- Berserk Wiki, Episode 3 (2016 Anime) "Night of Miracles"Overview and SummaryReference checked
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