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No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe;

 every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse,
as well as if a Promontorie were,
as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were;
any mans death diminishes me
because I am involved in Mankinde;
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.

John Donne

Englischer Prediger
1572 - 1631

Diese Worte von John Donne dienen
 als Vorwort in Ernest Hemingway's Buch:
 

Wem die Stunde schlägt

( For Whom the Bell tolls )