Retirement and Death
Simone Mirman retired in 1990 and returned to France. She took up oil painting as a hobby and painted until her eyesight failed. She died in 2008 at the age of 96.
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Famous quotes containing the words retirement and/or death:
“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man’s enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.”
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)
“It is not love you will find:
You have no limbs
Crying for stillness, you have no mind
Trembling with seraphim,
You have no death to come.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)