Melancolico Portugues Quotes & Sayings

In my art history degree course, we did a module on palimpsests - medieval sheets of parchment so costly that, once the text was no longer needed, the sheets were simply scraped clean and reused, leaving the old writing faintly visible through the new. Later, Renaissance artists used the word pentimenti, repentances, to describe mistakes or alterations that were covered with new paint, only to be revealed years or even centuries later as the paint thinned with time, leaving both the original and the revision on view.

Sometimes I have a sense that this house - our relationship in it, with it, with each other - is like a palimpsest or pentimento, that however much we try to overpaint Emma Matthews, she keeps tiptoeing back: a faint image, an enigmatic smile, stealing its way into the corner of the frame. — J.P. Delaney

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. — Fernando Pessoa

In simplicity there is truth. — River Phoenix

I'll admit I'm a workaholic. — Kenny Chesney

When you hear people tell you all the truth of the gospel, it does not necessarily mean that is what they are trusting. — Jim Wilson

Accept whatsoever you are. In that very acceptance you will accept others, too. — Osho

Is it not true that for most of us who call ourselves Christians there is no real experience? We have substituted theological ideas for an arresting encounter; we are full of religious notions, but our great weakness is that for our hearts there is no one there. Whatever else it embraces, true Christian experience must always include a genuine encounter with God. — A.W. Tozer