"Alas! must it be ever so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?"

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Novelists from EnglandPoets from EnglandAcademics from the United KingdomViceroys of IndiaBritish Ambassadors to France
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Part ii, canto ii, section v.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Bulwer-Lytton%2C_1st_Earl_of_Lytton

Part ii, canto ii, section v.