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Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.


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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.



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I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.



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[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.





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