Schlink, who is also a lecturer in law, writes with an alert sense for moral ambiguities, yet he also makes an impassioned stand in defence of the redemptive power of love. Philip Oltermann

施林克——同时也是一个法律讲师——抱着对道德多义性的警戒感写作了此书，同时也对爱的救赎力作出了慷慨激昂的辩护。

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Verse to Remember: "The entire law is summed up in a single command: love."

背记经文：“因为全律法都包在“爱人如己”这一句话之内了。”

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Sometimes the disability is removed, the law suspended: by the deathless power of love or hate we break the spell — we are seen by those whom we would warn, console, or punish.

有的时候这种不安定会消除，法律中止：通过超越生死的爱与恨我们粉碎了魔咒——我们被那些我们想要警告、安慰或者惩罚的人看到。

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Fire is the tale of two beautiful middle-class sisters-in-law who fall in love with each other.

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Even in law school, perhaps the place more than any other where sheer cleverness is prized and love of argument for its own sake is fundamental to the culture, he was not much interested in academic jousting.

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