Isaac Deutscher Quotes

The intoxication with the theatre, with its limelight, costumes, and masks, and with its passions and conflicts, accords well with the adolescence of a man who was to act his role with an intense sense of the dramatic, and of whose life it might indeed be said that its very shape had the power and pattern of classical tragedy.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.