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What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Commerce
Despair
Escaping
Humans
Mentality
Relief
Standards
Worldly
Souls
Suburban
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I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Protected
Spiritual Life
Absolute
Absolute Necessity
Beliefs
Instinctively
Nourished
Structured
Surely
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The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Billions
Bustle
Explosions
Heaven
Hustle
Invisible
Molecules
Particles
Petrol
Relentless
Signals
Storm
Blocks
Electronic
Engine
Trucks
Unable
Violently
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At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Completing
Examination
Following
Mates
Easy Thing
Failed
First Place
Simple Thing
Honours
Mainly
Passed
Remarkably
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At the age of nine, I simultaneously fell in love with two Dutch sisters because they seemed so beautifully strange, and their clothes were mysterious and alluring - added to which, they could not speak a word of English. More than anything, I wanted to connect with them and embark on a vast journey of exploration.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Journey
Age
Alluring
Clothes
Dutch
Exploration
Mysterious
Nine
Speak
Strange
Wanted
Added
Beautifully
English
Sisters
Connect
Vast
Embark
Word
More Than Anything
Seemed
Simultaneously
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There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Travel
Ambition
Madness
Particular
Sublime
Life Travel World
Life World Mind
Useful
Depict
Model
Wandering
Indeed
Leads
Reasons
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