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"No Man Is An Island"

Feb. 12th, 2010 at 3:29 PM
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"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...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."

(John Donne, Meditation XVII)
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[identity profile] wirral-bagpuss.livejournal.com
Feb. 12th, 2010 08:33 pm (UTC)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Noone is ever truly alone. We as a human race are all one. We are a family but one with many quarrells amongst the family :(
[identity profile] vasily-sergeev.livejournal.com
Mar. 18th, 2011 04:16 am (UTC)
The wonderful pray, it has entered into my heart since an early youth, from Hemingway's books.
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Mar. 18th, 2011 11:56 am (UTC)
Ah I see, "For Whom the Bell Tolls"...I've read it in Donne's works themselves.

But yes, a touching meditation...and, to a large extent, true.
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