"Every time we are faced with a choice, and we are faced with them every minute of every day, we make a decision to follow its course into the future. But what of the abandoned options? Are they like unopened doors? Do alternative futures lie beyond them? How far would we wander from the course we have steered were we to go back and, just once, open Door A instead of Door B?"
Source : Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch, High Museum of Art (2001). “After The Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch”, p.38, Yale University Press