# Quote — Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

> The train came out of the long border tunnel — and there was the snow country. The night had turned white.

- Author: [Yasunari Kawabata](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata.md)
- Book: [Snow Country](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/snow-country.md)
- Original (ja): 国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった。夜の底が白くなった。
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/snow-country/the-train-came

## More from this book

> In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/snow-country/in-the-depths.md)