In spite of everything I loved you, and will go on loving you — on my knees, with my shoulders drawn back, showing my heels to the headsman and strai… - Vladimir Nabokov

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In spite of everything I loved you, and will go on loving you — on my knees, with my shoulders drawn back, showing my heels to the headsman and straining my goose neck — even then. And afterwards — perhaps most of all afterwards — I shall love you, and one day we shall have a real, all-embracing explanation, and then perhaps we shall somehow fit together, you and I, and turn ourselves in such a way that we form one pattern, and solve the puzzle: draw a line from point A to point B... without looking, or, without lifting the pencil... or in some other way... we shall connect the points, draw the line, and you and I shall form that unique design for which I yearn. If they do this kind of thing to me every morning, they will get me trained and I shall become quite wooden.