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.

Quote by Georges Bataille

(Story of the Eye) (under pseudonym of Lord Auch)
L'Anus solaire 1931. Trans. 1851) a tax collector and Antoinette-Aglaë Tournarde (b.

Eroticism sovereignty and transgression are at the core of his writings.