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pat ([personal profile] pat) wrote2006-07-22 06:13 pm

Because sometimes it needs to be said.

...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...

John Donne, "Meditation XVII", Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions