A near-perfect paragraph

Pulitizer Prize-winning author Richard Russo knows how to write a novel. I hope by now most people have read his books "Nobody's Fool'' and "Empire Falls'' or, failing that, at least seen the movies made from them. The former is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Russo has another wonderful novel out now, "Bridge of Sighs," and near the end of the story I came across a paragraph that is as near a perfect piece of writing as I've seen. You don't need to know that plot or the characters to appreciate the power of it, the way the sentences fit, the way the juxtaposition of certain words just keeps the paragraph going deeper and deeper into something like truth:
"The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up."
You read something like that and it can pretty much take your breath away.