
He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking.
Leo Tolstoy · Levin catching sight of Kitty at the Moscow skating rink in Part 1, chapter 9; Constance Garnett's wording, the Pevear and Volokhonsky version people share reads "as if she were the sun".
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