by Charles Baudelaire
Extract of The Flowers of Evil
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French Literature – French Poetry – Charles Baudelaire
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The Mirror
A frightful man enters, and looks at himself in a glass.
“Why do you look at yourself in the mirror, since you can view yourself only with displeasure?”
The frightful man answers me: “Sir, in accordance with the immortal principles of ’89, all men have equal rights; therefore I have the right to behold myself; with pleasure or displeasure, that concerns only my conscience.”
In the name of common sense, I was surely right; but, from a legal standpoint, he was not wrong.
Translated by Joseph T. Shipley
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French Literature – French Poetry – Charles Baudelaire
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