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Yes, you can buy new seals from your Volvo dealer (use OEM, don't be cheap with such cheap parts as these seals) -- if these two "doughnuts" cost you more than $5, I'd be amazed (I can't remember the price I paid).
The big trick is getting them installed, however. It's easy to remove the reservoir (just bend it over -- after you've emptied it as much as you can, and have lots of rags to absorb the fluid you couldn't suck out -- and it will pop out).
But after you put the seals in place on the master cylinder, putting on the reservoir properly is tough! If you don't push it on far enough for the nipples to "snap" into place in the new seals, they will continue to leak.
I made a template (of marine "wood", really a synthetic, but you can use anything else) of the reservoir with a cutout for the opening, and then placed that over the reservoir -- it would distribute the clamping force over the whole reservoir so it wouldn't be crushed. Then I used a big C-clamp to squeeze the reservior onto the cylinder and into the seals, having it press on the template instead of directly on the plastic reservoir. A little rocking motion, and they inserted all the way.
Good luck.
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