What Maria Popova thinks about agency
Writer and founder of The Marginalian, a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Maria Popova has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingA life spent in comfort, certainty and convenience is the most damning way a person can live.
Their wordsthere is no damnation greater than spending our allotted days in the catatonia of comfort and certainty, our inner lives automated by habit and halogen lit by convenience.
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