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'never send to know for whom the bells tolls'

Split, Croatia, 1 July 2009

 

(John Donne, Meditations)

 

'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.'

 

Just a simple reminder that Ernest Hemingway didn't coin the expression, but simply borrowed it – and its humanist message – from John Donne...

 

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