What would this mean?
I had known him all my life but I had been looking into his eyes for only five minutes
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It’s poetic or figurative language to communicate the idea that it SEEMS as if you’d known him all your life, perhaps even inferring you’d been waiting for him, knowing what this wonderful type of person WOULD be like. You’ve actually only looked at him for five minutes. Looking in his eyes conveys the meaning of deep communication and romance.
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It means this: Though I had known him for all my life, I had been looking into his eyes for only five minutes. Better?
The original was confusing because the contrast wasn’t emphasized with “though.” “But” is used for an exception, not so much a contrast.
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From “A New Omnibus of Crime”? I believe it means that he had known this kind of person all throughout his life, but he’d only known this specific guy for 5 minutes.
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the speaker was a mere friend with the one being talked about for a long time ago but only fell in love recently(after a long while of friendship)
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It means that she feels like she knows him very very well, even though they just met.
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