“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
“If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.”
“For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one has to find out --through error and through trial, through fantasy and illusion, through falsehood and his own damn foolishness, through being mistaken and wrong and an idiot and egotistical and aspiring and hopeful and believing and confused.”
“Some slight friction threatening in the Balkans, sir.”
“All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.”
“This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive”