Varlam Aravidze:
You will grind to dust anyone who stands in your way. If you're struck on one cheek, you won't turn the other one, you'll strike back so hard that the other's neck is broken. Your kind is not capable of splitting! You don't give a damn about good and evil. It's not splitting you're worried about, it's fear that's killing you!
Abel Aravidze as an adult:
What fear?
Varlam Aravidze:
You fear yourself. All your life you've been after prestige, proud of your model family, and, suddenly, your world is collapsing.
Abel Aravidze as an adult:
No!
Varlam Aravidze:
Yes. Your father is thrown out of his grave, you're losing your power, your only son rebels against you. All that stood for the name of Abel Aravidze is slipping away from you. And you're left alone, helpless and weak.
Abel Aravidze as an adult:
No! No!
Varlam Aravidze:
Yes, you're afraid! You're being eaten up by your fear of loneliness. For a lonely unbeliever thinks only of death.
Abel Aravidze as an adult:
Yes, I'm afraid! I'm surrounded by emptiness. All my life I've been trying to run away from it, pretending and lying. Both my family and my work are just self-deception, for I am afraid to be left alone with myself. Afraid to think.
Varlam Aravidze:
About what?
Abel Aravidze as an adult:
About what's most important. Who are you? What do you live for? What's the point of your existence? Who are you? What did you live for? And you? And you? Who are you? Who are you, Abel Aravidze? Abel Aravidze, Abel Aravidze...
Varlam Aravidze:
Who are we? What did we come to this world for? Where are we rushing to? You know what? Forget all this nonsense. Tomorrow everything will return to normal and you'll live as you used to. Trying to atone for your sins? A coward, that's what you are! If it were up to me, I would have sent you right to Hell!
Abel Aravidze as an adult:
Who are you? Who are you? Answer me!
Varlam Aravidze:
Didn't you recognize me, my boy? So you came to confess to the devil?
