I feel that Humbert was infatuated with the idea of love. Following the death of his childhood sweetheart, Annabel Leigh, Humbert became obsessed with the prototype of his failed love and has never really been able to move on. His inability to consummate a relationship with Annabel has led to a search to reassure himself that his failed relationship was not a question on his manhood.
From the time when Humbert initially meets Lolita, he focuses constantly on the physical characteristics of Lolita, such as "the bloom along the incurvation of her spine, and the swellings of her tense narrow nate clothed in black, and the seaside of her schoolgirl thighs", yet he makes no mention of an emotional connection with her, an attribute that constitutes the basis of substantial love. I would say Humbert is in lust rather than in love with Lolita. If Humbert really loved Lolita, he would understand that Lolita was merely a child and wasn't emotionally mature enough to pursue a relationship with a grown man.
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