It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it.

Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on.

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone, even if they don't know it.