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The Exiles

by Honoré de Balzac

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In his introduction toÉtudes philosophiques, Balzac stated:The warm and scholarly study ofLes Proscritscontains two identical propositions - the suicide of a child disgusted with life who wants to reach for the sky, and the genius which becomes fatal to a great poet.

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