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Morgenröthe
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1881)

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Aurore The Dawn of Day

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Dans ce livre on trouvera au travail un homme « souterrain », un homme qui perce, creuse et ronge. On verra, en admettant que l’on ait des yeux pour un tel travail des profondeurs ─, comme il s’avance lentement, avec circonspection et une douce inflexibilité, sans que l’on devine trop la misère qu’apporte avec elle toute longue privation d’air et de lumière ; on pourrait presque le croire heureux de son travail obscur. Ne semble-t-il pas que quelque foi le conduise, que quelque consolation le dédommage ? Qu’il veuille peut-être avoir une longue obscurité pour lui, des choses qui lui soient propres, des choses incompréhensibles, cachées, énigmatiques, parce qu’il sait ce qu’il aura en retour : son matin à lui, sa propre rédemption, sa propre aurore ?… Certainement, il reviendra : ne lui demandez pas ce qu’il veut là en bas, il finira bien par vous le dire lui-même, ce Trophonios, cet homme d’apparence souterraine, dès qu’il se sera de nouveau « fait homme ». On désapprend foncièrement de se taire lorsque l’on a été taupe aussi longtemps que lui, seul aussi longtemps que lui. ─ ─

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.—

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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Aurore		The Dawn of Day
1.		1
Dans ce livre on trouvera au travail un homme « souterrain », un homme qui perce, creuse et ronge. On verra, en admettant que l’on ait des yeux pour un tel travail des profondeurs ─, comme il s’avance lentement, avec circonspection et une douce inflexibilité, sans que l’on devine trop la misère qu’apporte avec elle toute longue privation d’air et de lumière ; on pourrait presque le croire heureux de son travail obscur. Ne semble-t-il pas que quelque foi le conduise, que quelque consolation le dédommage ? Qu’il veuille peut-être avoir une longue obscurité pour lui, des choses qui lui soient propres, des choses incompréhensibles, cachées, énigmatiques, parce qu’il sait ce qu’il aura en retour : son matin à lui, sa propre rédemption, sa propre aurore ?… Certainement, il reviendra : ne lui demandez pas ce qu’il veut là en bas, il finira bien par vous le dire lui-même, ce Trophonios, cet homme d’apparence souterraine, dès qu’il se sera de nouveau « fait homme ». On désapprend foncièrement de se taire lorsque l’on a été taupe aussi longtemps que lui, seul aussi longtemps que lui. ─ ─		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.—
		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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