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Choose one of the three complementary design notebooks from a package of Monet Water Lilies Writer's Notebooks from Galison Green. The journal with a cover showing rose-colored water lilies (painting ca. 1914-1917 in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) has lined pages and inside the front cover, the quotation "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."; the dark closeup of white lilies (a detail from Waterlilies, Evening, from the Musée Marmottan, Paris) is blank and has the quotation "My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it."; the closer detail of pink water lilies (Waterlilies, 1916-1919, Musée Marmottan, Paris) has contintental style graph pages and the quotation "Colour is my day-long obsession."