An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in — Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.

— Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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