The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life. Now, with the new feeling that had ripened in him, he became aware of another law: that we are given only one conscience, too. A life laid down cannot be reclaimed, nor can a ruined conscience.

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.