What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?