For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
("War and Peace")
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Anything is better than lies and deceit!
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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
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