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Morgenröthe
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1881)

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The Dawn of Day Morgenröthe

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In this book we find a “subterrestrial” at work, digging, mining, undermining. You can see him, always provided that you have eyes for such deep work,—how he makes his way slowly, cautiously, gently but surely, without showing signs of the weariness that usually accompanies a long privation of light and air. He might even be called happy, despite his labours in the dark. Does it not seem as if some faith were leading him on, some solace recompensing him for his toil? Or that he himself desires a long period of darkness, an unintelligible, hidden, enigmatic something, knowing as he does that he will in time have his own morning, his own redemption, his own rosy dawn?—Yea, verily he will return: ask him not what he seeketh in the depths; for he himself will tell you, this apparent Trophonius and subterrestrial, whensoever he once again becomes man. One easily unlearns how to hold one’s tongue when one has for so long been a mole, and all alone, like him.—

In diesem Buche findet man einen "Unterirdischen" an der Arbeit, einen Bohrenden, Grabenden, Untergrabenden. Man sieht ihn, vorausgesetzt, dass man Augen für solche Arbeit der Tiefe hat -, wie er langsam, besonnen, mit sanfter Unerbittlichkeit vorwärts kommt, ohne dass die Noth sich allzusehr verriethe, welche jede lange Entbehrung von Licht und Luft mit sich bringt; man könnte ihn selbst bei seiner dunklen Arbeit zufrieden nennen. Scheint es nicht, dass irgend ein Glaube ihn führt, ein Trost entschädigt? Dass er vielleicht seine eigne lange Finsterniss haben will, sein Unverständliches, Verborgenes, Räthselhaftes, weil er weiss, was er auch haben wird: seinen eignen Morgen, seine eigne Erlösung, seine eigne Morgenröthe?... Gewiss, er wird zurückkehren: fragt ihn nicht, was er da unten will, er wird es euch selbst schon sagen, dieser scheinbare Trophonios und Unterirdische, wenn er erst wieder "Mensch geworden" ist. Man verlernt gründlich das Schweigen, wenn man so lange, wie er, Maulwurf war, allein war - -

ever: Ever means at any time.
return: To return is to go back to a place.
rest: To rest is to stop being active while the body gets back its strength.
alone: If someone is alone, they are not with another person.
thin: If someone or something is thin, they are not fat.
hidden: Hidden means to be not easily noticed or too hard to find.
lone: If someone or something is lone, they are the only one of that kind.
earn: To earn means to get money for the work you do.
period: A period is an amount of time when something happens.
sign: A sign is a notice giving information, directions, a warning, etc.
own: To own something means to have it. That thing belongs to you.
gain: If you gain something, you get more of it.

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Morgenröthe Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1881)

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The Dawn of Day		Morgenröthe
1		1.
In this book we find a “subterrestrial” at work, digging, mining, undermining. You can see him, always provided that you have eyes for such deep work,—how he makes his way slowly, cautiously, gently but surely, without showing signs of the weariness that usually accompanies a long privation of light and air. He might even be called happy, despite his labours in the dark. Does it not seem as if some faith were leading him on, some solace recompensing him for his toil? Or that he himself desires a long period of darkness, an unintelligible, hidden, enigmatic something, knowing as he does that he will in time have his own morning, his own redemption, his own rosy dawn?—Yea, verily he will return: ask him not what he seeketh in the depths; for he himself will tell you, this apparent Trophonius and subterrestrial, whensoever he once again becomes man. One easily unlearns how to hold one’s tongue when one has for so long been a mole, and all alone, like him.—		In diesem Buche findet man einen "Unterirdischen" an der Arbeit, einen Bohrenden, Grabenden, Untergrabenden. Man sieht ihn, vorausgesetzt, dass man Augen für solche Arbeit der Tiefe hat -, wie er langsam, besonnen, mit sanfter Unerbittlichkeit vorwärts kommt, ohne dass die Noth sich allzusehr verriethe, welche jede lange Entbehrung von Licht und Luft mit sich bringt; man könnte ihn selbst bei seiner dunklen Arbeit zufrieden nennen. Scheint es nicht, dass irgend ein Glaube ihn führt, ein Trost entschädigt? Dass er vielleicht seine eigne lange Finsterniss haben will, sein Unverständliches, Verborgenes, Räthselhaftes, weil er weiss, was er auch haben wird: seinen eignen Morgen, seine eigne Erlösung, seine eigne Morgenröthe?... Gewiss, er wird zurückkehren: fragt ihn nicht, was er da unten will, er wird es euch selbst schon sagen, dieser scheinbare Trophonios und Unterirdische, wenn er erst wieder "Mensch geworden" ist. Man verlernt gründlich das Schweigen, wenn man so lange, wie er, Maulwurf war, allein war - -
ever: Ever means at any time. return: To return is to go back to a place. rest: To rest is to stop being active while the body gets back its strength. alone: If someone is alone, they are not with another person. thin: If someone or something is thin, they are not fat. hidden: Hidden means to be not easily noticed or too hard to find. lone: If someone or something is lone, they are the only one of that kind. earn: To earn means to get money for the work you do. period: A period is an amount of time when something happens. sign: A sign is a notice giving information, directions, a warning, etc. own: To own something means to have it. That thing belongs to you. gain: If you gain something, you get more of it.

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