For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the…

Leo Tolstoy
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For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series), p.1144, Random House
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