Quote by Laura Marling

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of

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This quote expresses the speaker's deep fascination with the smallness and brevity of human life within the vastness of the universe. The imagery of being just a insignificant letter in a sentence on a page in a book highlights the overwhelming sense of insignificance that this realization can bring. The quote also touches upon the fear that this awareness can evoke and emphasizes how such thoughts have haunted the speaker during sleepless nights.

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