With all due respect, it relieves me to know that some retain their hopes and goals throughout that. Some sense of self, you know? The few times we're told anything of that nature, being born here or staying so long, it's made to sound bad end through and through.

[He doesn't plan to be here that long, but he acknowledges the possibility. If he were to stay for so long, he'd rather die than be doomed to being so fundamentally changed.]