Degas and Heart

Yesterday, I had an e-mail exchange with someone I've met via the internet, a person of courage and formidable intellect for which I have great admiration and respect. Relating the grave personal trial she found herself in recently, she quoted the artist Edgar Degas:

"There is art and there is life; and we have but one heart. We think we have two until it breaks. Then we know there was only one."

I can sit on that quote and think about it forever.