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“The rougher I treated my
body, the more and more empty my head became. For the first time in
several years, I could go to sleep and wake up feeling refreshed.”
― Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Welcome to the N.H.K.

“You always have to go too far to get anywhere at all, in art or life.”
― Francis Bacon (painter)

“This dreamlike logic hung over the entire afternoon.”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash

“Our personal hallucination now developed as boundlessly as perhaps the total nightmare of human society, for instance, with earth, sky, and atmosphere.”
― Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

“A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.”
― Georges Bataille

“But he knew well enough what was wrong with him: he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them – afraid of the society he so despised.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
― Georges Bataille

“My painting is not violent; it’s life that is violent. I have endured physical violence, I have even had my teeth broken. Sexuality, human emotion, everyday life, personal humiliation (you only have to watch television)—violence is part of human nature. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

You are born, you fuck, you die. What could be more violent than that?”
― Francis Bacon

“It's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“It’s scary what greed can do to people, don’t you think?”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“Do I still love this woman? he asked himself. He was in the habit of observing himself so closely that the answer came as a surprise to him: I do.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror”
― Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

“We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.”
― Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

“That discourse one might call the poetry of transgression is also knowledge. He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don’t know.”
― Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.”
― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

“Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life.”
― Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Welcome to the N.H.K.

“I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash

“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash

“Boys... I hope you all just die.”
― Inio Asano, A Girl on the Shore