“Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb....” – Altamirano, The Mission ... Movie Quotes Database

Altamirano

Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb. But in truth nothing could prepare me for the beauty and the power of the limb that I had come here to sever.

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