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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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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How many roads must a man walk down
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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
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