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Paul Fabel
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No. Let $X$ be a Hausdorff space which fails to be locally compact at precisely one point. Now take the Alexandroff compactification of $X$, adding exactly one new point, whose neighborhoods have compact complement in $X$. The new space is not Hausdorff, but has the property that it is compact, and each compact subspace is closed. In general the image of a compact space is compact, and hence each retract of the new space is a closed subspace of itself.

Paul Fabel
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