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be swallowed up

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

The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe. Kim Novak

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. Susan Sontag

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

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it. David Novak

But when I'm jumping, it's as if my feelings are going upward to the sky. Really, my urge to be swallowed up by the sky is enough to make my heart quiver. When I'm jumping, I can feel my body parts really well, too-my bounding legs and my clapping hands-and that makes me feel so, so good. Naoki Higashida

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