Maria Popova
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931 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Maria Popova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we make art to try to bear it, to try to bear our mortality.
If we were not mortal, we would not make art.
We wouldn't.
Why?
Why do you think that?
Let me put it this way.
I do think every artist's art is their coping mechanism for their suffering, whatever that is, and for their joys, too, but much, much of it to metabolize our suffering.
And most of our suffering is at bottom some sort of response to the
Regret, heartache, loss, it's all a confrontation with the finitude and the irreversibility of life.
Well, love is a coping mechanism for mortality as well, isn't it?
Oh, that's beautiful.
At least I'd like to think that.
To me.
Hold on.
Okay.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
So every love story is a tragic story.
How?
Because every love ends with a loss, either of the person or of their love, right?
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