Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin. The Wheel Of Time (№ 73407)

But like a bottomless deep area of the intimate love duet. For anybody not permeable, alcove life binds two people - man and woman - night selfish secret; makes them like accomplices in a sweet sin, which no one is allowed to confess, which, even among themselves, ashamed to speak in the afternoon and loud.
This force of passion, conquers all the awkwardness, brings together the extremes, smooths the bumps, depersonalizing the individual, it equalizes all the difference: sex, blood, descent, breed, age and education, and even social background - so inexpressibly all-powerful its scary, blissful and Blazhnov power!
But in this element always dominates is not the one who loves more, and the one who loves less: the strange and evil paradox!