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What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books


Andrei Sinyavsky

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ANDREI A. GROMYKO My personality doesn't interest me.
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ANDREI A. GROMYKO