Walden
Rating: 9.3
When I went to university, I read the most impressive books, and read seven or eight translated versions, plus the original English version. It is also a book recommended by the president of Tsinghua University for freshmen.
No matter what state you are in, you can find your own feeling and experience of reading.
Thoreau, by Walden, taught us to subtract from life with clear thoughts, and reading it, you will feel your heart and soul being washed.
Classic quotes:
In my opinion, people can only live sincerely if they are unaccompanied
It is very peaceful to go with the flow and not to be stigmatized as lazy
The necessities that the soul needs, and not a single one of them needs money to buy.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Rating: 9.7
The first book I gave as a gift in college was lonely enough just to hear the title.
All the splendor in life needs to be repaid by loneliness. The splendor and loneliness in life constitute life, which is not brilliant for a long time, and there is no eternal loneliness.
When life is a long river, it flows through the wasteland of history, flows through the forest of life, and flows through the lonely desert.
Classic quotes:
The essence of life is to live alone.
Don't expect too much from others, we always want to find someone who can share the pain and sorrow for us, but most of the time, our earth-shattering pain is just dust in the eyes of others.
Perhaps, the loneliness of adults is the joy and sorrow of self-movement, and this is also our rare freedom.
True death is being forgotten in the hearts of others.
Dream of Red Mansions
Rating: 10
When I was in high school, the teacher was lecturing above, and I watched the Red Mansion below, especially in the third year of high school. Baoyu got married, and the scene of Daiyu's death became a pain in my heart that could not be eliminated in my third year of high school.
I can't introduce Dream of Red Mansions, everyone knows how great Dream of Red Mansions is in their hearts, and everyone has their own Dream of Red Mansions in their hearts. It's the most perfect book in the world.
Classic quotes:
When the fake is true, the truth is also false, and there is no place for inaction.
The agency was too clever and mistook Qingqing's life.
If there are three thousand waters, I will only take one scoop to drink.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Rating: 9.3
I have read the book myself three times, and Atticus can be called a perfect person, pursuing fairness and justice for ordinary people.
He teaches children about prejudice, justice, conscience, bravery, respect. He is kind and selfless to the maids, neighbors, colleagues, and people in need of help.
Classic quotes:
You can't really know anyone unless you put in his shoes and accompany him on a journey.
What would the world we live in look like today? Strip away those adjectives and the rest is the facts.
The more I experienced, the more I realized that kindness is not just a nature, but more often a choice.
Before I can accept others, I first have to accept myself. There is one thing that cannot follow the herd principle, and that is the conscience of man.
Notre-Dame de Paris
Rating: 9.5
The bells of Notre-Dame Cathedral at night, hiding Quasimodo's loneliest gift.
It teaches us to pursue truth, goodness, and beauty, and in the strong contrast between ugliness and beauty, good and evil, sincerity, kindness and truth are extraordinarily precious and beautiful.
Hugo used romantic techniques to expose the darkness and cruelty of France society at that time, and the kindness of the people at the bottom seemed very fragile.
Classic quotes:
Just when I thought I was powerful, fate was more powerful than me.
This is often the case with unfortunate people. He cherishes life, and maybe he really sees hell behind him.
Extreme pain, like extreme joy, does not last long because it is too violent. It is impossible for the human heart to stay at any one extreme for long.
Les Misérables
Rating: 9.6
By the time I finished reading the book, Valjean was the closest I felt to an angel. He is really too strong to compromise in the face of the injustice of fate.
In the face of many difficulties and bad luck, he is still as sincere and kind as an angel. This is not only a reflection on humanity and society, but also a hope and courage.
Classic quotes:
Where the foot cannot reach, the eye can reach; Where the eye can't reach, the spirit can fly.
The greatest happiness in life is to be sure that someone loves you, someone loves you because you are you, or rather, someone loves you despite being you.
Anna Karenina
Rating: 9.4
Anna's psychological monologue before her death is arguably the most brilliant psychological depiction of the nineteenth century, and it is hard to imagine what state Tolstoy was in when he wrote these passages.
If the part of Anna's suicide is taken as the climax of the whole novel, then it is not Tolstoy who stands on this highest point and looks down on it, but the Grim Reaper.
Classic quotes:
We are all waiting, waiting for someone else to save us.
There is no environment that people can't adapt to, especially when he sees people around him living like this.
People tend to see the fulfillment of desires as happiness.
When the water is full, it overflows, and when it is said that there is a profit, it is a loss, and this world has never been more beautiful, but not the most beautiful. And the moment that is closest to perfection is the moment when it is easiest to go to the opposite.
War and Peace
Rating: 9.5
Uncle Tolstoy is not humorous self-deprecation, he is serious. More than 1,000 pages contain a lot of content that can be interpreted from all angles. But the main thing, and the main thing he wants to tell us, is that we don't know anything.
Classic quotes:
If a person is not happy in his heart, how can his body be well? In our time, can anyone with feelings live comfortably?
When we love those who have given us benefits, it is better to love those who have received benefits from us.
When I learned that there are two real misfortunes in life: regret and sickness. Happiness is not present without these two misfortunes. Living for myself and avoiding these two misfortunes is all I have in life now.
The Red and the Black
Rating: 9.0
Yu Lian is ambitious, calculating, and determined to climb upward. But he is so annoying, but he arouses sympathy, not only because he was born weak, like a girl, but readers can often see his inner struggles and entanglements.
Classic quotes:
A road does not lose its beauty because its side is overgrown with thorns, and the traveler goes on as usual, leaving those pesky thorns there to die
In the selfish desert of life, everyone is doing their own thing, and everyone is planning for themselves.
If I don't even look down on myself, how can I be a human being?
Gone with the Wind
Rating: 9.5
Scarlett was born wealthy, glamorous, carefree, and innocent. She is vain, conceited, and the people she loves must belong to her.
Until the turmoil of the war, he experienced the taste of poverty, hunger, displacement and even the destruction of his family, and could no longer rely on anyone, so he overcame the ups and downs of fate and finally lived a strong self.
Classic quotes:
Yesterday is gone with the wind, tomorrow is forever new.
Just because someone doesn't love you as you think doesn't mean they don't love you wholeheartedly.
Don't waste your time with people who don't want to spend it on you.
Source: WeChat public account "Huoye Yue Reading"
Author: Huo Ye Bu Ash
Editors: Xing Cheng, Yang Min (intern)
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