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In literature, the term vision oscillates between the literal and the metaphorical, serving as a bridge between physical perception and deeper, often spiritual, insight. It is invoked not only to describe the act of seeing—as when nature becomes an almost impenetrable curtain before one's eyes [1] or when a fleeting image is caught in a mirror [2]—but also to embody transformative ideals and divine revelations. In some texts, vision carries the weight of prophetic insight and destiny, guiding characters and narrators alike in their quests [3], [4], [5]. Meanwhile, vision also acts as a metaphor for internal clarity or recollection, with authors using it to reveal how memory or inner purpose can recreate the past or define the future [6], [7]. Thus, across various genres and epochs, the notion of vision enriches the narrative by blending the tangible with the transcendent.
  1. Farther back within the domain, the vision is impeded by an impenetrable screen of foliage.
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
  2. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he beheld the vision.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  3. And as Peter was thinking of the vision, the Spirit said to him: Behold three men seek thee.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. Genesis Chapter 32 Jacob's vision of angels; his message and presents to Esau; his wrestling with an angel. 32:1.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  5. Ezechiel Chapter 40 The prophet sees in a vision the rebuilding of the temple: the dimensions of several parts thereof.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  6. The whole resulting vision, as it is sustained from moment to moment by present experience and instinct, has no value apart from actual ideals.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  7. It is true that memory sometimes, as in a vision, seems to raise the curtain upon the past and restore it to us in its pristine reality.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

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