Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin. Diaries 1933-1940 (№ 321201)

Don't know if she loves as I want, and I love it as it should, but our attention to each other is extraordinary, and the spiritual life moving forward not clove, not two, but one turn of the lever on all the gear. <...> How fortunate to be elected: after all, many different people were, and asking, and knowing your "no", went into Oblivion. But I came, and I ocotillos "Yes", and among the many invited I was the chosen one. And how many also and passed and passed and only got my "Yes" was chosen, and we both elected without wine drunk and luxuriate in talking. I like to get living water from a deep well of her spirit, and because of this, I find, open some according to this depth, and the person becomes beautiful to me. Also her face in my eyes, always changing, always worried, like a star.