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Mr. Starnes (The Eagle)
Dr. Hyde is a very old religion teacher at Culver Creek. Miles thinks that he’s a genius, even though he once kicks Miles out of class. Dr. Hyde encourages his students to think about the meaning of life and death, and after Alaska dies, he changes his final exam and asks students to answer Alaska’s question about how to escape the labyrinth of suffering.
Dr. Hyde (The Old Man) Quotes in Looking for Alaska
The Looking for Alaska quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Hyde (The Old Man) or refer to Dr. Hyde (The Old Man). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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4. One Hundred Twenty-Six Days Before
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“I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?”
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Dr. Hyde (The Old Man) Quotes in Looking for Alaska
The Looking for Alaska quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Hyde (The Old Man) or refer to Dr. Hyde (The Old Man). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
4. One Hundred Twenty-Six Days Before
Quotes
“I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?”
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