Sentence

Here I will briefly pay tribute to the most important sentence in literature.

The sentence is from Dostoyevsky, but it doesn’t really belong to him. You can use it too. Like a pair of good black pants, it’s suitable for all occasions. Like a tiny flashlight, it may suddenly become crucial. Theologically, the sentence is one of the incarnations of Vishnu, unless you’re talking to a Christian, who will pronounce it “grace”. Published by Dostoyevsky in 1844, the sentence is actually as old as the universe, which may rightfully be said to have begun with it.

Notes from the Underground, page 144. “But at this point something exceedingly strange happened.”