The moment the instinct for survival gives way to the instinct for
possession, reasonable human beings lose all sense of their probable
life span and day-to-day equilibrium.  They grow hostile to small
chills in the atmosphere and aquiesce without further ado to
whatever evil and deceit might require of them.

	- Rene' Char, *Fueillets d'Hypnos*, 1946 
	  (in Harper's Magazine, August 2003, p.27)