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

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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Source: (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto II, Stanza 5.
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