Marquis de Sade wasn't it? Or rather, one of his characters, the loathsome banker Durcet (The 120 Days):-
"Ah, how many times, by God, have I not longed to be able to assail the sun, snatch it out of the universe, make a general darkness; or use that star to burn the world."
Which sounds awfully - even spookily - like Oppenheimer.
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Date: 2006-07-26 11:10 pm (UTC)"Ah, how many times, by God, have I not longed to be able to assail the sun, snatch it out of the universe, make a general darkness; or use that star to burn the world."
Which sounds awfully - even spookily - like Oppenheimer.