Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

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.