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Love Quote by Lennart Nilsson

"The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year"

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Calling it "the chemistry of love" is a photographer's move: take something everyone thinks they understand, then insist the real story lives at the microscopic level. Lennart Nilsson built a career on making the invisible legible, famously turning biology into images that felt like revelations. So when he says love's chemistry is "extremely extremely unbelievable", the repetition reads less like sloppy emphasis than an attempt to verbalize the same awe his pictures are designed to trigger. He's not romanticizing feelings; he's marveling at the machinery underneath them.

The second half abruptly shifts from wonder to production logistics: "planned for more than two years... start in the beginning of next year". That pivot is the subtext. Nilsson is quietly reminding you that enchantment can be manufactured - not faked, but staged into visibility through patience, funding, access, and timing. The "unbelievable" isn't only nature's trick; it's also the fact that modern media can chase it, package it, and deliver it on a schedule.

Contextually, this sounds like a creator speaking about an upcoming project rather than a philosophical pronouncement. Nilsson positions love as a scientific subject worthy of the same visual scrutiny as embryos and organs, smuggling intimacy into the lab without killing its mystique. The line works because it holds two truths in tension: love as chemical fact, and love as the kind of fact we still experience as disbelief.

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Nilsson, Lennart. (2026, January 16). The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-chemistry-of-love-is-something-which-is-114013/

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Nilsson, Lennart. "The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-chemistry-of-love-is-something-which-is-114013/.

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"The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-chemistry-of-love-is-something-which-is-114013/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Lennart Nilsson (August 24, 1922 - January 28, 2017) was a Photographer from Sweden.

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