"no man is an island" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1623, John Donne, “Meditation XVII”, in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions",
          "text": "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, […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1981 April 4, Rick Cornely, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1992, Richard Nixon, “The Renewal of America”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 301",
          "text": "Just as no man is an island, no nation lives in isolation. When freedom is denied in one country, it is diminished in all.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Jeremi Szaniawski, The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov, Columbia University Press, page 231",
          "text": "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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      "glosses": [
        "All people are connected to and dependent on other people."
      ],
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          "connected",
          "connected"
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        [
          "dependent",
          "dependent"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
          "word": "沒有人是一座孤島"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "méiyǒu rén shì yī zuò gūdǎo",
          "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
          "word": "没有人是一座孤岛"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
          "word": "alle mennesker er forbundne og afhængige af andre mennesker"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
          "word": "yksikään ihminen ei ole saari"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
          "word": "is ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
          "word": "なんぴとも一島嶼にてはあらず"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
          "word": "ninguém é uma ilha"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "no man is an island"
}

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        {
          "ref": "1623, John Donne, “Meditation XVII”, in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions",
          "text": "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, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981 April 4, Rick Cornely, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Richard Nixon, “The Renewal of America”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 301",
          "text": "Just as no man is an island, no nation lives in isolation. When freedom is denied in one country, it is diminished in all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2014, Jeremi Szaniawski, The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov, Columbia University Press, page 231",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
      "word": "沒有人是一座孤島"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "méiyǒu rén shì yī zuò gūdǎo",
      "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
      "word": "没有人是一座孤岛"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
      "word": "alle mennesker er forbundne og afhængige af andre mennesker"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
      "word": "yksikään ihminen ei ole saari"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
      "word": "is ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
      "word": "なんぴとも一島嶼にてはあらず"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "all people are dependent on other people",
      "word": "ninguém é uma ilha"
    }
  ],
  "word": "no man is an island"
}