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

— Plato

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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ↗

— Sai Baba

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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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The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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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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That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.' ↗

— Alvah Bessie

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