Keynes and Strachey quickly developed Moore’s work into a personal ethos, elevating youthful romantic excursions and sophomoric debates over art and society into the highest good
Apostles saw themselves not merely as clever young men but as members of an undetectable elect whose greatness could be fully appreciated only from within.
At Eton, he had something to prove. In the Apostles, he discovered an alternative elite that rewarded his strengths and celebrated his interests.
The blockade was the kind of brute-force imperialism Keynes would expect from “Bismarck”—not the civilized British Empire
Keynes was now a man of affairs, enmeshed in the great problem of the day, while his Bloomsbury friends remained merely difficult people with complicated romantic lives
The Allies might well win the war, but both the global order and the domestic culture Keynes had been raised in had already disappeared.