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WRITERS > librarian, essayist, moralist, poet, novelist > Georges Bataille
To place oneself...
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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.
Source: Bataille, Feydeau and God, interview with Marguerite Duras in France-Observateur (1957; repr. in Duras, Outside: Selected Writings, 1984).
-- Georges Bataille, (Sep 10 1897-1962), French librarian, essayist, moralist, poet, novelist; His essays, novels, and poetry expressed his fascination with eroticism, mysticism, and the irrational.