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ANONYMOUS
In addition to any practical reasons, some masters sensed, to varying degrees, that this technique
was the most fitting for portraying an eruption’s ceremonial mystery.
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PLINY
For our greed and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood, fire and stone. We dig her up and dump her in the sea. We sink mine shafts into her and drag out her entrails – and all for a jewel to wear on a pretty finer. Who can blame her if she occasionally quivers with anger?
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ROBERT HARRIS, POMPEII
To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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DEBORAH DAVIS
If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCH
Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
No catastrophe has ever yielded so much pleasure to the rest of humanity as that which buried Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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ENCYLOPAEDIA OF VOLCANOES
The human body cannot survive being in temperatures over 200 degrees centigrade for more than a few moments, especially in the fast moving current of a surge. Trying to breathe in the
dense cloud of hot ash in the absence of oxygen would lead to unconsciousness in a few breaths, as well as causing severe burns to the respiratory tract… On the other hand, survival is possible in
the more distal parts of a surge if there is adequate shelter to protect against the surge flow and its high temperature, as well as the missiles (rocks, building materials) entrained in the moving
cloud of material
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PLINY THE YOUNGER
“In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no
Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.”
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LILIAN WHITING
Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque;
Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply — fascinating.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
I won’t say another word about the beauties of the city and its situation, which have been described and praised often. As they say here, “Vedi Napoli e poi muori! — See Naples and die!” One
can’t blame the Neapolitan for never wanting to leave his city, nor its poets singing its praises in
lofty hyperboles: it would be wonderful even if a few more Vesuviuses were to rise in the neighbourhood.
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LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO
I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not.
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MADAME DE STAEL
If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of
Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius
whom I had not seen.
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WERNER HERZOG
However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples.
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MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Naples is the flower of paradise. The last adventure of my life.
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HERMAN MELVILL
Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
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LIBERO BOVIO
Everything is blue in Naples. Even the melancholy is blue.
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JULIUS CAESAR
Our men must win or die. Pompey’s men have… other options.
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PLINY THE YOUNGER
There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.
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JOELY SUE BURKHART
Mount Vesuvius has always been my domain. The hottest hells of the earth cannot touch our kind. Know true darkness by how it embraces your fire, your blood, or both, and beware the bright light of day. “Thank you, Father.”
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ANONYMOUS
If I leave Naples as a virgin I will remain virgin forever.
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PICASSO
Art is Dangerous
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STEVEN MAGEE
Where will the lava go?
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WERNER HERZOG
Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different
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MILES DAVIS
A kind of Blue
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MILES DAVIS
So What?
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KATE BUSH
I spend a lot of my time looking at blue; The colour of my room and my mood.
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HENRI MATISSE
One square centimeter of blue is not as blue as a square meter of the same blue.
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ANONYMOUS
Don’t worry, be blue!
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ANONYMOUS
Cool blue on the outside, fiery red on the inside.
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PETRA HERMANS
Blue was never so beautiful blue.
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E.M FORSTER
Death destroys a man: the idea of death saves him.
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PAUL GAUGUIN
If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.
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STEVEN TYLER
Blue is the closest color to truth
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