Charles BukowskiCan you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
About This Quote
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? Haruki Murakami is known for his vivid imagination. The quote above more or less expresses that he is always trying to imagine what life would have been like if he had not been told who to be by his mother and father. In his novel, "Kafka on the Shore," he imagines a day in which he was never told there were rules at all. In this case, can you imagine being alive if there were no rules?
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