Anna Karenina vocabulary

 if once one allows the possibility of making of all the past a tabula rasa— no property, no family— then labor would organize itself. But you gain nothing…"

 "Why do you mix things up? I've never been a communist."

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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Boulder itself was a cloned society, a tabula so rasa that it could not sense its own novel beauty.