The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with something, and Yurii Andreievich stared ahead of him out of the window, as if he were not looking at the snow but were still reading Tonia’s letter and as if what flickered past him were not small dry snow crystals but the spaces between the small black letters, white, white, endless, endless. Boris Pasternak
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The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with something, and Yurii Andreievich stared ahead of him out of the window, as if he were not looking at the snow but were still reading Tonia’s letter and as if what flickered past him were not small dry snow crystals but the spaces between the small black letters, white, white, endless, endless.” This quote is about how heavy Tonia’s letter was for Yurii with how he doesn’t want to open it. He wants to be with her but he doesn’t want to ruin their relationship by revealing his true feelings; he doesn’t want to ruin everything because she is too important to him. The wind was also sweeping the snow aside because it was trying to catch up with something; maybe this something is what Tonia has been thinking about or what she wants.

Source: Doctor Zhivago

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