Some books are labeled as "literary classics" for a reason. There are books that put your brain to pasture and books that broaden your horizons, change your view of the world, and impress you with the beauty of words. We've collected 15 of the latter for you - 15 of those you've probably already heard of, even if you didn't pay much attention to Slovenian at school. 15 book classics that every earthling should read, along with 15 of the most famous quotes for a taste.
Which ones book classics should everyone read it?
1. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
"Most important of all: don't lie to yourself. A person who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a point where he no longer recognizes the truth either in himself or around him and thus loses all respect for himself and others. And without respect, he stops loving.''
2. Jerome David Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
"What really excites me is a book that, after reading it, makes me wish that the author was my good friend and that I could call him whenever I felt like it. But that doesn't happen very often.''
3. Franz Kafka: The Process
"Only because of their stupidity can people be so sure of themselves."
4. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
"All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
5. George Orwell: 1984
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.''
6. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Stop it cows, life is short."
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
"When I was younger and more vulnerable, my father gave me a piece of advice that I've been mulling over in my head ever since. "Whenever you want to criticize someone," he told me, "remember that not everyone in this world has the same privileges as you."
8. Herman Hesse: Siddhartha
"It was all a lie. Everything stank, stank of lies and gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, but in reality everything was depraved and no one wanted to admit it. The taste of the world was bitter. Life was suffering.''
9. Milan Kundera: The unbearable lightness of being
"When the heart speaks, the head finds it inappropriate to object."
10. Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
How wonderful it is to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?''
11. Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
"Will I be the hero of my life or will someone else take this place, the following pages must show that."
12. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
''But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.''
13. Harper Lee: Don't Kill a Nightingale
"People tend to see what they're looking for and hear what they want to hear."
14. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Time is an illusion. Time for lunch is an illusion and a half.''
15. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at sight for all eternity."
