Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But--on the top of that--he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the Mediterranean; and Lisa entered for a moment into a perfect peace of spirit. She became once with Nature, instead of a being eternally at war with it. Aleister Crowley
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Quotes are not created by simply picking random words off the page. A quote is a little bit more than that because you have to understand the context of the message behind the words. If you were to take your favorite quote out of context, it would be nothing more than words on paper. However, if you were to put this quote into a different setting, its meaning would be altered completely.

This quote has accompanied Lisa during her journey through the Staircase Gallery at The National Gallery in London. It is because she was surrounded by beauty that she was able to reach a state of peace where everything was right with the world. The quote has helped her reach this state because it serves as a reminder to us all that beauty can only exist when we are able to find inner beauty within ourselves.

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