A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.

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Lily Tomlin

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

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Our interpretation.

The speaker turns a familiar sentiment on its head with dry wit: if love is the answer, then the question must have been badly put. It gently mocks how neatly love is offered as a cure-all while life's questions remain tangled and unresolved.

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