The Invisible Man

by H.G. Wells

Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.

But his temper, at no time very good, seems to have gone completely at some chance blow, and forthwith he set to smiting and overthrowing, for the mere satisfaction of hurting.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

I told no living soul, because I meant to flash my work upon the world with crushing effect and become famous at a blow.

“And after three years of secrecy and exasperation, I found that to complete it was impossible—impossible.” “How?” asked Kemp. “Money,” said the Invisible Man, and went again to stare out of the window. He turned around abruptly. “I robbed the old man—robbed my father. “The money was not his, and he shot himself.”

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Before I made this mad experiment I had dreamt of a thousand advantages. That afternoon it seemed all disappointment. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.