"The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke."

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Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.66, Vintage

Yasunari Kawabata

#Snow Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“If you've got beef, then eat a porkchop”
“The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option”
“If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.”
“I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me”
“I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.”
“When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”
“It is an interesting fact about model selection that the evidence at hand can indicate that a model known to be false will be more predictively accurate than a model known to be true. This opens the door to a kind of instrumentalism.”
“Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]”

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