The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.
Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.