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Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. ↗

— Al Goldstein

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ↗

— Plato

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Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. ↗

— Keith Haring

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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it. ↗

— Lotte Lehmann

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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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