How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.