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Being ill like this combines shock – this time I will die – with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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.