“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
More from Leo Tolstoy
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended…”
“But their eyes when they met spoke more fondly and kissed tenderly.”
“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
“Everything is, everything exists, only because I love”