No man is an island, entire of itself; each 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 thine own or of thine friend's were; each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind; therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Excerto publicado em "Por quem os sinos dobram" de Ernest Hemingway
John Donne