Classic quotations from Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

1. This kind of loneliness dispels sadness and contains a kind of bold will.

2. The river at the foot of the mountain seems to flow from the tops of cedar trees.

3. Shimamura felt bored. Staring blankly at the fingers of his left hand that were constantly moving. Because only this finger could make him clearly feel the woman he was about to meet. The strange thing is that the more eager you are to recall her clearly, the blurr your impression becomes. In this confusing memory, only the few touches left by this finger brought him to the woman in the distance.

4. The moment her eyes overlapped with the light, they were like coquettish and beautiful luminous insects flying in the afterglow of the setting sun.

5. Shimamura seemed to be sitting on something unrealistic, losing the concept of time and distance, falling into a trance, letting it carry him in vain My own body gallops.

6. The stars that adorn the Milky Way are bright and clearly visible. Even the bright clouds look like grains of silver sand, extremely clear.

7. This is a beautiful voice that is so clear that it is almost sad, like an echo coming from somewhere.

8. There are many rocks in the stream, and the gurgling sound of running water gives people a sweet and mellow feeling.

9. This anxious look is like a nocturnal animal fearing the dawn and wandering around anxiously.

10. Even your fingertips have a beautiful color.

11. Survival itself is a futile effort.

12. The dusk scenery moves behind the mirror. In other words, the virtual image reflected on the mirror and the real object behind the mirror are shaking, like superimposed images in a movie. There is no connection between the characters and the background. Moreover, the characters are a kind of transparent illusion, and the scenery is a hazy undercurrent in the night mist. The two melt together to depict a symbolic world that transcends the human world. Especially when the lights in the mountains reflected the girl's face, the indescribable beauty made Shimamura's heart almost tremble.

13. This is a cold night scene, as if you can hear the sound of ice cracking deep in the entire frozen earth's crust. There is no moon. Looking up, there are so many stars in the sky that it’s unbelievable. The stars were shining brightly, as if they were falling slowly at an illusory speed. The stars moved closer to the eyes, pushing the night sky further and further away, and the night became darker and darker. The mountains at the county boundary have become unclear and appear darker, hanging heavily on the edge of the starry sky. This is a cold, quiet and harmonious atmosphere.

14. This is an illusion. Because the dusk that keeps passing behind the girl's face seems to be flowing in front of her face. If you look carefully, it's confusing. The cabin isn't too bright either. The reflection on the windowpane is not as clear as a real mirror. The reflection is gone. This fascinated Shimamura. He gradually forgot about the existence of the mirror and only felt that the girl seemed to be floating in the passing dusk. At this moment, lights flashed on the girl's face. The clarity of the reflection in the mirror did not diminish the light from the window. The light did not erase the image. The light flashed across her face, but it did not illuminate her face. It was a cold light cast from a distance, illuminating the area around her eyes vaguely. The moment her eyes overlapped with the lights, they were like a coquettish and beautiful figure dancing in the afterglow of the setting sun.

15. Over the distant mountain tops, there is still a faint afterglow of sunset. The outline of the scenery seen through the car window receded into the distance, but did not disappear, but it was eclipsed. Although the train continued to run forward, in his opinion, the ordinary posture of the mountains and fields became more and more ordinary. Since nothing really attracted his attention, there seemed to be a huge torrent of emotion hidden within him. This was naturally due to the girl's face appearing in the mirror.

16. "On days like this, even the timbre is different!" Juzi looked up at the clear sky behind the snow, and only said this. Indeed, that was due to the difference in weather. If there were no theater walls, no audience, and no urban dust, the sound of the piano would pass through the clear morning sky in winter and ring unimpeded through the snow-covered mountains in the distance.

17. Although she is not aware of it, she always uses the canyons of nature as her audience to practice playing in solitude.

Over time, her strumming naturally gained strength. This kind of loneliness dispels sadness and contains a kind of bold will.

18. Passing through the long tunnel at the county boundary is the Snow Country, with a vast expanse of white under the night sky.

19. Treat each other as friends and don’t ask for sex.

20. There is a strong vitality in poverty.

21. Shimamura glanced around this peculiar house. There is only a low window on the south side, but the fine-grid paper door is newly-pasted, and there is plenty of light. The walls are also carefully pasted with raw edge paper, making people feel as if they are getting into an old cardboard box. However, the roof above the head was completely exposed and connected to the windows. The house looked very short and dark, shrouded in a deserted atmosphere. When I think about what is on the other side of the wall, I feel like the house is hanging in mid-air, and I always feel uneasy. Although the walls and mats are old, they are very clean.

22. However, it seems that her longing for urban things has now been hidden in simple despair and turned into a naive dream. He felt strongly that her emotion was rather a kind of pure futility than the arrogant dissatisfaction of a city loser. She herself did not appear lonely, but in Shimamura's eyes, she became unimaginably sad. If you indulge in this kind of thoughts blindly, even Shimamura himself may fall into a vague sentimentality, thinking that survival itself is a futile effort. However, the cold air in the mountains made the blush on the face of the woman in front of him become even brighter.

23. The almost sad and beautiful voice of the leaves, like the echo of a certain snow mountain, still lingers in Dao Cun’s ears.

24. The moon is as bright as a knife placed on crystal ice.

25. The empty echo of Komako hitting the wall sounded like snowflakes falling on Shimamura's heart.

26. Shimamura somehow seemed to feel deep in his heart: What is the connection between the woman who is remembered by the touch of her fingers and the woman who has the lights shining in her eyes? something happened. This is probably because I haven't woken up from the mirror of the twilight scene yet. He murmured to himself for no reason: Could the passage of those dusk scenes be a symbol of the passage of time?

27. However, this kind of love cannot leave real traces like a piece of crepe. Even though the crepe used for clothing has the shortest life among handicrafts, as long as it is properly stored, it can last five years. Crepe made ten years or more ago will still not fade when worn on the body, but people's attachment to it is not as long as the crepe.

28. She was like a strange fruit in a fruit shop in a deserted village, abandoned alone in a glass box blackened by soot.

29. The snow in the mirror becomes more and more dazzling, like a burning flame.

30. This face is as red as the face reflected in the mirror on a snowy morning. To Shimamura, this is another color between fantasy and reality.