In a Banach space, for each point the collection of all scalar multipliers of this point is connected, how to prove?

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I tried to prove the above statement showing that the boundary of each proper set is non-empty. But i could not did it then i tried to construct a line joining each two points in the set Banach space, and show that each such line is connected, to show that each line is connected i tried to prove that each proper set is non-empty using supremum and infimum, i could do this, but whenever the supremum and the infimum of the proper set is one of the points i could not show that the boundary of the proper set is not empty.

How it may be proven?

ps: The space does not need to be complete, furthermore we may assume the scalar field to be either the real or complex numbers.