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Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

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Al-Ghazali
Born: 1058
Born: January 1
Autobiographer
Mutakallim
Philosopher
Theologian
Ghazzoliĭ
Muḣammad ibn Muḣammad ibn Aḣmad Abu Ḣomid at-Tusiĭ
Al-Ghazzali
Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī
Algazelus
Algazel
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Abu Mohammed al-Ghazali
Al-Gonzzali
Ghonzzali
Islamic
Breaths
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Retrieved
Never
Irreplaceable
Jewel
Priceless
Jewels

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