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1929

★ 6.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

United States v. Schwimmer · 1929

★ 6.0

Novel · War novel

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

1929

★ 5.5

Letter

Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet · 1929

★ 5.2

Novel · Coming of age

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

Thomas Wolfe

1929

★ 5.0

Essay · Feminist literature

Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 4.7

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage and Morals · 1929

★ 4.4

Novel · War novel

Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms · 1929

★ 3.9

Essay · Feminist literature

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.8

Essay · Feminist literature

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.8

Novel

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop · 1929

★ 3.8

Letter

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1929

★ 3.7

Essay · Feminist literature

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.7

Essay · Feminist literature

It is the masculine values that prevail... This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.7

Poem

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

D.H. Lawrence

1929

★ 3.6

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage and Morals · 1929

★ 3.5

Magazine · Scientific literature

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

The Exploration of Space · 1929

★ 3.5

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

1929

★ 3.5

Poem

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark-a shining space With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.

Robert Graves

1929

★ 3.5

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

1929

★ 3.5

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