Love is being stupid together.

The line treats love less as an elevated ideal than as a shared suspension of strict rationality. “Being stupid together” suggests the voluntary dropping of self-protective intelligence—overthinking, calculation, pride—in favor of intimacy, play, and mutual vulnerability. It can be read as affectionate irony: love makes people act foolishly, but the foolishness is redeemed because it is reciprocal and bonding rather than isolating. The remark also hints at a modern, skeptical sensibility often associated with Valéry: lucidity recognizes that passion can be irrational, yet it also acknowledges that this irrationality may be one of love’s humanizing gifts.