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Daido Moriyamai, photo from Tights & Lips series (2011) 

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Gaspar Noé filming a scene from I Stand Alone, 1998

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- Gaspar Noé, poster for Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone) (1998)

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- Gherasim Luca

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hans bellmer

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- Hester Scheurwater, Female Orgasm (2010)

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- Hester Scheurwater, Female Orgasm (2010)

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Balthus, The Victim (1938)

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Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)

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Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)

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Cherishing my somber thoughts

Deep in waking, melancholy dream

I have no remorse for this dark life

And I rent the transparent fabric

The fabric of youthful expectations

And misty childhood reveries;

Far removed from vain desires

Long prepared for death I am

- Fyodor Sologub

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"Beyond the annihilation to come, which will fall with all its weight on the being I now am, which still waits to be called into existence, which can even be said to be about to exist rather than to exist (as if I did not exist here and now but in the future in store for me, though that is not where I am now) death will proclaim my return to seething life. Hence I can anticipate and live in expectation of that multiple putrescence that anticipates its sickening triumph in my person."

- George Bataille, Eroticism

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- Marco Ferreri, Still from Dillinger is Dead (1969)

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- Paul Schrader, Title Screen from Hardcore (1979)

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- Akio Jissoji, Still from Mujo (This Transient Life), 1970

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- Akio Jissoji, Still from Murder on D Street (1998)