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Across literature, "inseparable" is employed with both literal and metaphorical nuance to emphasize bonds that are unbreakable or conceptually united. Philosophers and political theorists use the word to denote the essential unity of abstract concepts, as when Rousseau [1, 2, 3, 4] and Plato [5, 6, 7] argue that justice, happiness, or duty are inherently connected, or when Kant [8] and Schopenhauer [9, 10, 11] insist on the indivisibility of certain existential or metaphysical elements. In contrast, novelists and poets often describe personal or emotional ties that cannot be severed, whether in enduring friendships and companionable relationships noted by Tagore [12], Poe [13, 14, 15], and Guy de Maupassant [16, 17], or in the delicate interplay of beauty and melancholy in Poe’s work. Even in more scientific or analytical texts, "inseparable" signifies components that cannot be meaningfully isolated, as seen in Locke’s [18, 19, 20, 21] discussion of spatial parts or in Darwin's anatomical observations [22]. Thus, "inseparable" serves as a versatile literary device that unites diverse realms of thought—from the concrete bonds of human companionship to the abstract necessities of philosophical argumentation.
  1. I regard the two maxims as inseparable—always enough—never too much.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  2. Let a man do his duty first, without asking whether he will be happy or not, and happiness will be the inseparable accident which attends him.
    — from The Republic by Plato
  3. This clause is essential, and I would have tutor and scholar so inseparable that they should regard their fate as one.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  4. I say nothing of the vexation, the deceit, the crimes, and the remorse of all kinds, inseparable from such a life.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Justice and happiness being thus shown to be inseparable, the question whether the just or the unjust is the happier has disappeared.
    — from The Republic by Plato
  6. To us, the perceptions of sense are inseparable from the act of the mind which accompanies them.
    — from The Republic by Plato
  7. To us, the perceptions of sense are inseparable from the act of the mind which accompanies them.
    — from The Republic of Plato by Plato
  8. This concept, therefore, is inseparable in its origin from obligation to that Being.
    — from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
  9. So then the world as idea, the only aspect in which [pg 006] we consider it at present, has two fundamental, necessary, and inseparable halves.
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
  10. Only as the result of this knowledge can the will transcend itself, and thereby end the suffering which is inseparable from its manifestation.
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
  11. Thus, as a certain pitch is inseparable from the note as such, so a certain grade of the manifestation of will is inseparable from matter.
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
  12. They were both sure that, if they once met, they would be inseparable.
    — from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
  13. that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
  14. that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  15. To the moralist it will be unnecessary to say, in addition, that Wilson and myself were the most inseparable of companions.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe
  16. They went everywhere together and were inseparable.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  17. By the end of a month the two new friends were inseparable.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  18. Secondly, The parts of pure space are inseparable one from the other; so that the continuity cannot be separated, both neither really nor mentally.
    — from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke
  19. Extension being inseparable from Body, proves it not the same.
    — from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke
  20. Their Parts inseparable.
    — from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke
  21. The parts of space inseparable, both really and mentally.
    — from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke
  22. 1871, p. 342, who states that the corrugator supercilii is inseparable from the orbicularis palpebrarum .
    — from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

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