Donne seems apropos. Plus, this is, in fact, a somewhat hopeful if morose thought-piece.
Donne seems apropos. Plus, this is, in fact, a somewhat hopeful if morose thought-piece.
tl;dr the famous bit (but it all seems fitting to me)
No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were;
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/meditation17.php
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/meditation17.php
tl;dr the famous bit (but it all seems fitting to me)
No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were;
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/meditation17.php
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/meditation17.php
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