Il n'y a pas d'oeuvre d'art sans collaboration du démon  

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"Il n'y a pas d'oeuvre d'art sans collaboration du démon" is a dictum by André Gide found in his journals. Its English translation reads “there is no work of art without collaboration of the demon”.

"In his Dostoievsky (1923) he had added to Blake’s Proverbs of Hell two others of his own invention: “It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made”; and “There is no work of art without collaboration of the demon.”"[1]




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