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No man is an island
“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 a manor of thy friends 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.”
- John Donne (1572-1631)

Ernest Hemingway used the old English version of this poem as a preface to one of his best-selling books – “For Whom The Bell Tolls”

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Image made yrs ago on color film & desaturated for b/w