The Contented ’s Reviews > A Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West > Status Update

‘There are absolute loves and contingent loves’, Sartre had told Simone de Beauvoir, assuring her that theirs was of the first variety while his and her other affairs were of the second.

‘Thou art Peter and on this Rock I build my house.’
Does the name confer an obligation or influence and identity? He thought so, and for my sake tried to change, since concessions had to be made to my Muslim background, with its emphasis on chastity and modesty, and my temperament, but it was only a temporary solution. Perhaps no mere human can be ‘the Rock’, on which to build the house, only Love itself -

Perhaps because jealousy is the fear of loss, and people are only jealous of what they really care about and wish to keep

We did not arrange to meet again, but I had no doubts- does the Sun ‘arrange’ to shine every day?

Loved the chapter ‘Learning to Learn’