Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life…but what is that something?

Si la vie humaine n'a pas de prix, nous agissons toujours comme si quelque chose depassait, en valeur, la vie humaine… Mais quoi?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Topic

What really matters Value of life

Speaker

Riviere

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Source

Night Flight

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

French

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Vol de Nuit [Night Flight]. Éditions Gallimard, 1931, ch. 14.

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It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Ernest Hemingway

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Topic
Meaninglessness

Author

Ernest Hemingway
Source
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
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Original Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." Scribner's Magazine, Mar. 1933.

Current Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Scribner, 1998.

Another quote originally in French

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince

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Topic
What really matters The heart Perception Reason and emotion
Speaker
Fox

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Source
The Little Prince
Language
French
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Le Petit Prince [The Little Prince]. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943, ch. 21.

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Why seek ye the living among the dead?

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Luke 24:5

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Jesus's resurrection
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Jesus
Source
Gospel of Luke The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Statement Type
Question
Language
Greek
Time
61 60s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 24:5).