To go, to come, to breathe, will be just so many terrible labors.
Your lungs will produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds.
Whether you shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be solved.
Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the street do?
He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall.
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On what is beneath, on the unknown.
Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet.
A lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a locksmith.