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no man is an island

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Etymology

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From the 1623 quotation below.

Proverb

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nomanisanisland

  1. All people areconnected to anddependent on other people.
    • 1623,John Donne, “Meditation XVII”, inDevotions upon Emergent Occasions:
      No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.[…] any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind,[…]
    • 1981 April 4, Rick Cornely, “Personal advertisement”, inGay Community News, page15:
      The few friends and relatives I once had seem to have forgotten me and I have found out the hard way thatno man is an island.
    • 1992,Richard Nixon, “The Renewal of America”, inSeize the Moment‎[1],Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page301:
      Just asno man is an island, no nation lives in isolation. When freedom is denied in one country, it is diminished in all.
    • 2014, Jeremi Szaniawski,The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov, Columbia University Press,→ISBN, page231:
      And yet,no man is an island, and Sokurov's desire to promote himself as an insular, unique figure, both in his thinking and in his work, is contradicted by the many arrangements and obligatory associations that cinematic production entails.

Translations

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all people are dependent on other people

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