“Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toil me back from thee to my sole self!”

Source: Macbeth

2011-12-24
Christopher Hitchens on The True Spirit of Christmas
The Wall Street Jorunal
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2010s, 2011

Source: No man is an island – A selection from the prose

Source: The Bell Jar

Modern version: 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 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.
Meditation 17. This was the source for the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Source: Meditation XVII - Meditation 17
Context: 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.

The Tenth Revelation, Chapter 24

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 538.