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That is the case because the real line is not compact.

The Pontryagin dual group of a locally compact abelian group $G$ is discrete (or has any isolated point) if and only if $G$ is compact. But the circle group giving the Fourier series is compact. It is an essential point that the characters of a non-compact lca group are not square-integrable (you can easily proof that). If there would be an isolated point $x$ in the dual space, then the characteristic function $\chi_{\left\{x\right\}}$ would be non-zero in the $L^2$-space. The inverse of the Fourier transform would have to map this non-zero $L^2$-function to a non-zero $L^2$-function, which would simply be a character $\exp(ikx)$, but this character is not square-integrable.

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