This is the entire quote from John Donne

'All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...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.' John Donne (1572-1631)

A reflexion on interconnection and mortality which had to be truncated to conform to the 500 character limit imposed by the unmovable boundaries of this blog. How very apt.