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If $X$ is a connected Hausdorff space and $X$ has more than one point, then is $X$ infinite?

It’s well known that if $X$ is a connected metric space then the answer is in the affirmative. The proof is number 1 here:

https://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~claude/530mtm.pdf

So since every metric space is Hausdorff, the answer to the question is clearly yes. What would a non-metric proof look like?

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If $X$ is a finite Hausdorff space then every singleton set is closed which implies that every subset is closed. Hence $X =\{x\} \cup (X \setminus \{x\})$ gives a disconnection of $X$ unless $X$ has only one point. So either $X$ has only one point or it is infinite.