"…Traces of superstition remained in him for a long time afterwards, almost indelibly. And later on..."

“…Traces of superstition remained in him for a long time afterwards, almost indelibly. And later on he was always inclined to see a certain strangeness, a mysteriousness, as it were, in this whole affair, the presence as of some peculiar influences and coincidences…”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via glassrib)