A wonderful start to a selection of classic masterpieces!

1. In my back garden, I can see two trees outside the wall, one is a date tree, and the other is also a date tree.

—— Lu Xun, "Weeds"

2. Through the long tunnel of the county boundary, it is the snow country. The night sky is white.

INTERVIEWER KAWABATA Yasunari, Snow Country

3. When I was ten years younger than I am now, I got a casual career and went to the countryside to collect folk songs. Throughout the summer of that year, I was like a sparrow flying around, wandering in the fields of cottages filled with knowledge and sunshine.

—— Yu Hua, "Alive"

4. All children will grow up, with one exception.

- Barry, "Peter Pan"

5. Legend has it that there is a kind of thorn bird that sings only once in a lifetime, and her song is more beautiful than the songs of all living beings in the world. From the moment she left the nest, she was looking for the thorn tree. Then she plunged her body into the longest, sharpest thorn and let go of her singing voice among the wild branches. It's a beautiful song that ends in death, but the whole world is listening quietly, and God is smiling in the sky. Because the best things can only be exchanged for deep pain and great trauma.

- Colleen McCullough, "Bird of Thorns"

6. I am a sick person... I am a man of evil intentions.

--Dostoevsky's Crypt Notebook

7. From Sichuan to Hunan, there is an official road to the east. When this official road approached the border of western Hunan to a small mountain town called "Cha Tong", there was a small stream with a small white tower by the stream, and a single family lived under the tower. There was only an old man, a girl, and a yellow dog.

——Shen Congwen, "Border City"

8. My life is full of shameful things.

- Osamu Dazai, "Human Disqualification"

9. When I was twenty-one years old, I was in the yunnan queue. Chen Qingyang was twenty-six years old at the time, working as a doctor where I joined the team. I was on the fourteenth team down the hill, and she was on the fifteenth team on the mountain. One day she came down from the mountain and discussed with me the problem that she wasn't a broken shoe.

——Wang Xiaobo, "The Golden Age"

10. Our time is a tragedy at all, so we will not take it as a tragedy.

— Lawrence, "Madame Chatterley's Lover"

11. Remember to keep a tight mouth on everyone but God.

—Alice Walker, "Purple"

12. For a long time, I lay down early.

- Marcel Proust, "Remembrance of a Time Like Water"

13. Once upon a time, in an era when dreams could become reality.

- Grimm's Fairy Tales

14. Please forgive the children for dedicating this book to an adult. I have a valid reason: This adult is my best friend in the world. I have another reason: this adult knows everything; even children's books.

- Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"

15. In the middle of my life, I found that I had lost my way and walked into a dark forest.

- Dante's Divine Comedy

When 16.k arrived, it was already dark and the village was covered with heavy snow. The castle stood on a hill, shrouded in thick fog and darkness, and nothing could be seen.

- Kafka's "The Castle"

17. The sound of the river is mighty, rising from behind the house. Rain hits the windows all day. A layer of water mist snaked down along the crack in the glass. It was dark.

— Roman Rowland, "John Christopher"

18. I find it hard to believe that this day, with neither foreshadowing nor signs, is the time of death from which I cannot escape.

- Borges, "The Garden of the Cross-Trail"

19. The fat and personable Bork Mulligan appears at the top of the stairs, holding a bowl of soap in his hand, with a mirror and a razor crossed over it.

- Joyce, "Ulysses"

20. Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia will recall the distant afternoon when his father took him to see the ice.

- Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

21. Today, Mom died. Maybe it was yesterday, I don't know.

—Albert Camus, The Outsider

22. Where is it now? What time is it? Who is it now?

—Samuel Beckett, The Nameless

23. April is the most cruel month, with cloves growing in the wasteland, mixing memories and desires, and letting the spring rains urge those dull roots.

- Elliot, "The Wasteland"

24. It was love at first sight. At the first meeting, Jossering fell in love with the military priest fanatically.

- Heller's Catch-22

25. If you really listen to me, the first thing you want to know is probably where I was born, how I spent a miserable childhood, what my parents did before they gave birth to me, this David Copperfield-style nonsense, but honestly, I don't want to say a fucking word about it. ”

— Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

26. Happy families are all alike, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes.

- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

27. In April, the weather was cold and sunny, and the bell struck thirteen times.

- Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

28. Mom says "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next piece will taste like." ”

- Winston, Forrest Gump

Content from: Primary school Chinese teacher excerpted from the WeChat public account "Sanpo Book List"

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