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In literature, "manifestation" frequently serves as a bridge between the internal and the external, encapsulating hidden qualities or abstract forces that become visible in the tangible world. Authors employ it to denote both an internal emergence and an outward expression of inner essence or cosmic will—for instance, when an emotion or personality trait becomes evident in a character's behavior [1][2]. At the same time, philosophers like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche use the term to articulate the physical or observable display of metaphysical ideas or unfettered powers [3][4][5]. Moreover, "manifestation" often connotes the symbolic expression of divine or transcendent qualities, as seen in depictions of God or sacred energy coming into perceptible being [6][7]. In all its uses, the word encapsulates the dynamic process by which the unseen is rendered visible, imbuing narrative and thought with layers of meaningful revelation.
  1. He needed a new manifestation of his personality.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  2. Though he had long foreseen something of the sort, the actual manifestation of the feeling was beyond anything he had looked for.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  3. —When we are confronted with any manifestation which some one has permitted us to see, we may ask: what is it meant to conceal?
    — from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  4. European democracy is only in a very slight degree the manifestation of unfettered powers.
    — from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche
  5. The force itself is a manifestation of will, and as such is not subject to the forms of the principle of sufficient reason, that is, it is groundless.
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
  6. A divine decree, resting beyond the gaze of human beings, works mysteriously to bring all things into outer manifestation at the proper time.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  7. I was conscious always that I was in the presence of a living manifestation of God.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

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