Death
He was diagnosed in 1984 with the neurological disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome, although he remained active in the Norton Simon Museum until his death.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“And anyone is free to condemn me to death
If he leaves it to nature to carry out the sentence.
I shall will to the common stock of air my breath
And pay a death tax of fairly polite repentance.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The ancients adorned their sarcophagi with the emblems of life and procreation, and even with obscene symbols; in the religions of antiquity the sacred and the obscene often lay very close together. These men knew how to pay homage to death. For death is worthy of homage as the cradle of life, as the womb of palingenesis.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)