The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった。
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Yasunari Kawabata
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) was the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1968), honored for his narrative mastery expressing 'the essence of the Japanese mind.' Works such as 'Snow Country,' 'The Old Capital,' and 'Thousand Cranes' capture transient beauty with a prose style of extraordinary delicacy and precision.
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美しさと哀しさとは何故これほどに通ひ合うのだろうか。
-- Yasunari Kawabata
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
-- Charles Dickens
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
-- Jane Austen
Man errs as long as he strives.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We Orientals create beauty by generating shadows in places that are nothing special.
-- Junichiro Tanizaki
The mastery of writing is ultimately an aesthetics, and it comes down to whether one can create one's own style.
-- Junichiro Tanizaki