I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an ennervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Source: Une Saison en Enfer, D?lires II: Alchimie du Verbe (1874; repr. in Collected Poems, ed. by Oliver Bernard, 1962).
-- Arthur Rimbaud, (Oct 20 1854-1891), French poet, adventurer; He identified with the Symbolists and, for a time, associated with Paul Verlaine; wrote Illuminations.