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"If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers."

I am Albert Camus, born into a working class family in Algeria November 7, 1913. I spent the early years of my life in North Africa, where I worked at various jobs to pay for the courses I was taking at the University of Algiers. Upon graduation I became a journalist. My report on the unhappy state of the Muslims of the Kabylie region aroused the Algerian government to action and brought me public notice. From 1935 to 1938 I ran a theatrical company that produced plays by Malraux, Gide, Synge, Dostoevsky, among others. During World War Two I was one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of Combat an important underground newspaper. I have always been active in theatre, and several of my plays have been published and produced. My books however have been the mainstay of my cultural impact. They include The Stranger, The Plague, The fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and The Rebel. These have ensured my prominent position in modern French literature. I also was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

For more information on me go to my Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus

Alas! In this unrelenting pugilism between our selfishness and our duty, when we recoil this way step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, enraged, exasperated at yielding, disputing the ground, hoping for possible flight, seeking some outlet, how abrupt and ominous is the resistance of the wall behind us!

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Which Existentialist Philosopher Are You?

You scored as Albert Camus You are Albert Camus, so you are one sweet absurdist. He built largely upon the framework of existentialists before him, but introduced the concept that life is absurd, but that we should continue living anyway. You have strong liberal leanings, although you annoy the Communists. You are susceptible to driving fast, and possibly crashing into a tree. Albert Camus 100% Jean-Paul Sartre 71% Martin Heidegger 36% Not An Existentialist 29% Friedrich Nietzsche 25% Soren Kierkegaard 14%

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