Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

In Germany Solzhenitsyn lived in Heinrich Böll's house in Cologne. After returning to Russia in 1994 Solzhenitsyn publiAleksandr Solzhenitsynd eight two-part short stories a series of contemplative "miniatures" or prose poems a literary memoir on his years in the West (The Grain Between the Millstones) among many other writings. [citation needed] Solzhenitsyn studied mathematics at Rostov State University.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (pron. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.