In the depths of the mirror ...

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.
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 Yasunari Kawabata

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And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.
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 Yasunari Kawabata
Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.
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 Yasunari Kawabata
Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.
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 Yasunari Kawabata
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
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 Yasunari Kawabata
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.
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 Yasunari Kawabata