ANDREI RUBLEV

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There’s a great truth in Konstantin Kostechensky’s saying: “You’ll penetrate the crux of every

Thing if you describe it truthfully.”

I have no pleasure in them. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; All is vanity.

I serve God, not people. Today they praise, tomorrow they’ll abuse what they praised only yesterday, and after that they’ll forget both you and me. They’ll forget everything!

All is vanity! All is useless!

The human race had already perpetrated all stupidities and wrongs, and now it’s just repeating them. Everything falls back into place again, and goes round and round. If Jesus came back to Earth again. He would be once more crucified!

If you remember only evil, you can never be happy before God.

What? Maybe some things should be forgotten, but not every thing.

I don’t know how to say it… If you don’t know, then be silent! Jesus gathered people in the temples, too. He taught them and then they gathered together in order to execute Him.

“Crucify him!” they shouted. And His disciples? Judas betrayed Him, Peter renounced Him.

They all abandoned Him! And they were the best!

But they repented!

That was much later, don’t you understand? When it was too late. It’s true, people do evil, too.

And it’s very sad. Judas had sold Christ out. But do you remember who bought Him?

The people.

As if you took a Communion, and the weight is lifted from your heart. Isn’t it so? You were talking about Jesus. Perhaps He was born and crucified for only one reason: to reconcile God with man. Jesus comes from God, it means He’s Almighty.

And His dying on the cross must have been preordained.

His crucifixion and death were God’s doing. And it was supposed to provoke hatred not of those who crucified Him, but of those who loved Him, if they had been with Him at that moment.

For they loved Him as a man. You think it’s easy to live in fear, like we do?

You fear because, you either don’t love at all, or love shamelessly, bestially, not with your heart.

Love should be brotherly. We’ll go on living as we used to! Go on, and no tricks. Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails…

But whether there be prophesies, they shall fail;

Whether there be tongues, they’ll cease; …knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head, because of the angels. Nevertheless, neither is the man without woman, neither the woman without man…

One Tartar even laughed at us.

He shouted: “You’ll cut one another’s throat even without us!”

We’re dying out little by little, forgive us God.

You’re not going to find anyone anyway. They’re all dead.

You won’t find anyone better than me!

I must admit that it provoked a feeling of joy, in my base soul, at the very bottom of it.

But now that my life’s coming to an end, my soul cries for eternal rest.

I’m going to die soon, and nothing will be left after me. You’re not going to live forever, too.

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