The Difference Among Men

The difference among men does not manifest itself only in the difference of their lists of desirable things. It manifests itself much more in what they regard as actually having, and possessing a desirable thing. As regards a woman, for instance, the control over her body and her sexual gratification serves as an amply sufficient sign of ownership and possession to the more modest man. Another, with a more suspicious and ambitious thirst for possession, sees the questionableness, the mere apparentness of such ownership. He wishes first to be thoroughly, indeed profoundly well known, in order to be loved at all he ventures to let himself be found out. Only then does he feel the beloved one fully in his possession.