"As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all."
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"I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back."
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"I'm just going to say that I met somebody last year, I fell in love, I had my first love, and it was something so incredible and indescribable."
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"Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then"
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"At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness."
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"I think your life is full of first loves because every time you love someone new, you love them in a different way."
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"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."
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"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."
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"I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life."
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"The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us."
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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
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"But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest."
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"Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss."
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"A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second."
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"Music was my first love and companion."
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"My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film."
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"There is no greater invitation to love than loving first."
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"Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater."
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"I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first."
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"fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn’t experience all that they might have.." - by the river piedra i sat down and wept"
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