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“No man is an island, entire of itself.”
Donne argues against imagining people as self-contained units; individual life is bound up with the lives of others.
Source note: Meditation XVII.
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“Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Another person’s loss is not completely separate from us because human lives participate in a shared condition.
Source note: Meditation XVII; modernized capitalization.