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The Nobel Prize

Kenzaburo Oe, awarded the 1994 Literature Prize:

As a child, I promised my mother I would win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Cinquenta anos depois, eu disse à minha mãeFifty years later, I said to my mother: “See, I have kept my promise. I won the Nobel Prize.”

“No,” said my mother, “You promised it would be in physics!”

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