I appreciate your book recommendation. As a matter of fact, I'm very much interested in Russian writers:-)  Anyway, I suppose I understand your point.
No matter how firmly one claims to believe something, it's surprising easy to change his/her stance down the road.

I'd love to hear your answer to my questions in the description also, if you don't mind. Thanks! 

The reason why I posted this topic is to learn different perspectives on why love seems to have so many more credits than, for example, passion, piety, hope etc. Any ideas, anybody?