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While Tolstoy has gone to great pains to show us what is in the heart and mind of of another person, here he shows us how there is always that distance between people. Maria did not go into her father’s room even though she was just on the other side of the door, Andrei ran off to the war) – we always distance ourselves for selfish reasons – but what if we didn’t? How that could actually change the world!