“They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Love is essential. Sex, a mere accident.”
O amor é que é essencial.
O sexo é só um acidente.
Poem (5 April 1935), reported in Poesias inéditas (1930-1935), p. 192
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