Dina Rubina. Adam and Miriam: Stories, Short Stories

Only in one feeling is man simultaneously great and defenseless. Only one feeling can drive him to commit a mad feat or a crime. Only one feeling does he deify, curse, call upon, and wait for all his life with frantic persistence. This feeling is love. Whatever we will get in our only life. Love is ascension. Love is fall. Love is curse. Love is quiet joy. Love is eternal anticipation. Simply: love.