Meaning of no man is an island | Babel Free

Definitions

All people are connected to and dependent on other people.

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Examples

“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, […]”

“The few friends and relatives I once had seem to have forgotten me and I have found out the hard way that no man is an island.”

“Just as no man is an island, no nation lives in isolation. When freedom is denied in one country, it is diminished in all.”

“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.”

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