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Quotation by Georges Bataille
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Georges Bataille (1897–1962), French novelist, critic. repr. In Duras, Outside: Selected Writings (1984). "Bataille, Feydeau and God," interview with Marguerite Duras in France-Observateur (1957).
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