Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old …

Leo Tolstoy
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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.520, Vintage
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