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The reason why a masterpiece is a masterpiece is that it still exudes the charm of thought and art no matter what kind of wind and frost it has experienced. And the first sentence and the first paragraph in many literary masterpieces are often the charm of the whole work. They can captivate or contemplate the reader.
1. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Luo Guanzhong
The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes. Success or failure turns empty. The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. On the white-haired fisherman river, accustomed to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet. How many things in ancient and modern times are laughing and talking.
——Dispatch "Linjiang Immortal"
Speaking of the general trend of the world, it will be together for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time. Over the weekend, the Seven Kingdoms were in conflict and merged into Qin. After the destruction of Qin, Chu and Han divided and merged into Han. The Han Dynasty revolted from Gaozu beheading the white snake and dominated the world, and later Guangwu Zhongxing, passed to Emperor Xian, and was divided into three kingdoms.
2. "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the years of wisdom, it was the years of foolishness, it was the time of faith, it was the time of doubt, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of disappointment, we were all going straight to heaven, we were all going straight in the opposite direction—in short, it was so much like now, that some of the most noisy authorities insisted on describing it with the superlatives of adjectives. To say it's good is superlative, and to say it's bad is superlative.
3. "Anna Karenina" Leo Tolstoy
Happy families are all alike, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes.
4. "Gone with the Wind" Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett O'Hara wasn't pretty, but men often ignored the charm she had given her like the Tarleton twins.
5. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" García Márquez
Many years later, Colonel Aureliano stood before the firing squad and remembered the distant afternoon when his father took him to see the ice. At that time, Macondo was a village of 20 families, with mud houses built on the banks of the river, and the water of the river was clear and flowed along the bed of the river, which was smooth and white, like a prehistoric dome.
6. "Wuthering Heights" Emily Brontë
Year 1801. I had just returned from a visit to my landlord – the lonely neighbor who was going to get me in trouble.
7. "Doctor Zhivago" Pasternak
They walked, and walked without stopping, singing "Never Forget", and when the song stopped, the footsteps, horses' hooves, and the breeze seemed to take over the song of mourning.
8. "Murphy" Samuel Beckett
The sun rises as usual, and nothing has changed.
9. "Peter Pan" James Matthew Barry
All children grow up, with one exception.
They're out there. The black boys in white uniforms got up earlier than me, they openly fucked the halls, and then wiped them all clean before I could catch them.
11. "The Fifth Slaughterhouse" Kurt Vonnegut
Everything in the story, to a greater or lesser extent, happened.
12. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
If you really want to hear me, the first thing you want to know is probably where I was born, how I spent my inverted childhood, what my parents did before they gave birth to me, and all that kind of David Copperfield nonsense, but I'll tell you honestly, I don't mean to tell you all of this.
13. "The Great Gatsby" Fitzgerald
When I was young and inexperienced, my father taught me a sentence that I still remember. "Whenever you want to criticize anybody," he told me, "remember that not all the people in this world have the privileges that you have. ”
14. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" Lawrence
We simply live in a time of tragedy, so we don't want to be frightened. The great tribulation has come, we are in ruins, and we are beginning to build some new little habitats, with some new little hopes. It's a tough job. There is no road to the future now, but we are taking a detour or climbing obstacles. No matter how upside down the world is, we all have to live.
15. "La Traviata" Alexandre Dumas
I believe that characters can only be created if you have studied people deeply, just as you can speak a language if you have studied it carefully.
It was real love at first sight. When they first met, Josellen fell feverishly in love with the chaplain.
17. "The Outsider" Camus
Today, Mom died. Maybe it was yesterday, I don't know. I received a telegram from the nursing home saying, "Mother is dead. Tomorrow's burial. Notice is hereby given. "That doesn't mean much. Probably died yesterday.
18. "The Metamorphosis" Kafka
One morning, Gregor Samsa woke up from a restless sleep to find himself lying in bed transformed into a giant beetle.
19. "The Old Man and the Sea" Hemingway
He was an old man fishing alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream, and he had been there for 84 days and had not caught a single fish.
20. "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" Milan Kundera
Nietzsche often struggled with philosophers about a mystical view of the "return of the multitudes": think of what we have experienced, think of how they repeat themselves as they were yesterday, and even repeat themselves endlessly!
21. "Lover" Marguerite Duras
I was getting old, and one day, in the hall of a public place, a man came up to me. He took the initiative to introduce himself, and he said to me, "I know you and will always remember you." At that time, you were still very young, and everyone said that you were beautiful, and now, I am here to tell you that for me, I think you are more beautiful now than when you were younger, when you were a young woman, and I love your devastated face more than you were at that time. ”
22. "Lolita" Nabokov
Lolita, the light of my life, the fire of my desires. My sin, my soul. Lo-Li-Ta: The tip of the tongue is upwards in three steps, gently falling from the palate down on the teeth. Lo-lei-ta.
23.《傲慢与偏见》简·奥斯汀
It has become a universally recognized truth that any rich bachelor always wants to marry a wife.
24. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Mark Twain
If you haven't read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you don't know who I am, but that's okay. The author of this book is a man named Mark Twain, and he mostly tells the truth.
25. "Chamilia" Aitmatov
Now I was standing in front of this small painting with a simple frame again. I will leave for my hometown early tomorrow morning, so I will look at this little painting for a long time, with great fascination, as if it could say something auspicious to me.
26. "Don Quixote" Cervantes
There is a place in Mancha, the name of which is needless to mention, and not so long ago there lived a nobleman. He was a nobleman, with a spear on the spear stand, a leather shield, a lean horse, and a hound. There was more beef than mutton in the pot, and he often ate diced cold meat for dinner, fried eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a wild pigeon on Sundays, which used up 3/4 of his income, and the rest of the money to buy a black tweed jacket, plush socks and flat shoes for the holidays, and usually, he always wore a good brown tweed coat proudly. The family has a housekeeper in her 40s, a niece under 20 years old, and a young man who can farm and buy, prepare horses for him and prune branches.
In April, the weather was cold and sunny, and the bell struck thirteen times. Winston Smith craned his neck to avoid the cold wind, and quickly slipped through the glass doors of the Victory Building, but he was not quick enough to prevent a puff of sand from following him into the door.
28. "Norwegian Wood" Haruki Murakami
"At 37 years old, I sat on a Boeing 747. The massive body cut through the heavy sleet clouds and leaned down towards Hamburg Airport. The cold rain on the skin of the people in November painted the earth gloomy. The raincoat-clad ground workers, the flags hanging down to the ground, the BMW billboards, and everything else look like the backdrop of a Flemish depressed painting. That's it, it's Germany again, I think. ”
29. "Journey to the West" Wu Chengen
The poem says: Chaos is not divided into heaven and earth, and no one sees it. Since Pangu broke Hongmeng, it has opened up from Ziqing to distinguish turbidity. Covering the masses of beings to look up to benevolence, inventing all things to be good. If you want to know the Yuan Gong of the Creation Society, you must watch "Journey to the West".
30. "The Siege of the City" Qian Zhongshu
The Red Sea was long gone, and the ships sailed over the Indian Ocean, but the sun still set late and rose early, encroaching on most of the night. The night is as if the paper has been soaked in oil and turned into a translucent body, it embraces the sun, and it cannot be distinguished, perhaps it is intoxicated by the sun, so the night after the sunset fades is also red. When Hong Xiao woke up drunk, the sleeping people in the cabin also woke up sweaty, took a shower and rushed to the deck to blow the sea breeze, and it was the beginning of another day. It's late July, the dog days of the old Chinese calendar, the hottest time of the year. In China, it is hotter than perennial, and everyone said that it was a sign of war afterwards, because this was the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937).