Quotation by James Joyce

Where there is a reconciliation, Stephen said, there must have been first a sundering.
James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 9, "Scylla and Charybdis," The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).

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